Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 2 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 3 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 4 | He baited his baskets and set them in the water , he was so cunning ! |
| 5 | Sally-Anne Tunstall would rather drop dead at his feet than accept him after this . |
| 6 | Despite his terror of darkness and subterranean places , he wanted the ground to open at his feet and swallow him into its blackest hole . |
| 7 | He turned with difficulty and got the keys out of the pocket of his trousers and put them on the chair seat . |
| 8 | He seized her shoulders , but her hands came up to hold his wrists and prevent him from pulling her close . |
| 9 | We shall examine the results of his experiments and compare them with the results that we would expect if the records were perfectly randomized . |
| 10 | I am trying to get the Minister to remove his blinkers and do something in favour of the small person . |
| 11 | He had decided to get away from his chaperons and ask her to his hotel for the night . |
| 12 | After opening the applicant should call his witnesses and take them through their evidence-in-chief ( but see Chapter 6 , 7 on the use of written statements ) . |
| 13 | His horrible wont was to envelop his victim with his wings and suffocate him to death . |
| 14 | In that first heart-stopping moment when he realised that it really was her , his impulse had been to run to her , to grab her in his arms and smother her with kisses , to chide her for not waiting until he came back to make her his wife . |
| 15 | More than anything in the world she longed for Mark to take her into his arms and comfort her like a baby . |
| 16 | Cold , and terrified of growing colder , so that when he opened his arms and put them around her , his musk-scented cloak coming with them , ample enough to cover them both , all she felt was the salvation of his warmth , his hard , hot body supporting her as she shook and shivered against him , that blessed , beautiful fur enclosing her as in a nest , muffling her from the killing storm . |
| 17 | All we 've got to do is to take his fingerprints and compare them with the beauties on this envelope . |
| 18 | Whilst his companion 's back was turned , Tuppe swiped one of his sausages and thrust it into his mouth . |
| 19 | And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water , and be unclean until the evening . |
| 20 | He could sluice himself , shuddering , take off his clothes and scrub them on a stone kerb , then hang them one by one out of the window . |
| 21 | The man struggled to marshal his thoughts and translate them into English . |
| 22 | At one time it was not uncommon for a retailer to display an exemption clause in his premises or include it in a written contract even though that clause was rendered totally ineffective by Act of Parliament . |