Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 2 | His fingers kept dipping into the torrent but the water remained chill . |
| 3 | And then his fingers had slid into the bodice , ruthlessly jerking the laces free , his face harsh with determination . |
| 4 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |
| 5 | There was a stinging spot on the side of his tongue where his teeth had sunk into the soft flesh . |
| 6 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 7 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 8 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 9 | It was only when his eyes had adjusted to the brightness that Dexter could assess Stephen Blufton properly . |
| 10 | His eyes seemed to draw in the light like two unreflecting pools and she was unable to tell whether she had dented his ego or not , but the patronising note that came into his voice hinted that she had somehow won that round . |
| 11 | His eyes seemed to glow in the darkness . |
| 12 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 13 | Then his eyes snapped shut against the agony tearing at him . |
| 14 | Another view of modern scholars is that the New Testament Devil and his demons became augmented by the fathers of the patristic era and were made even more devilish , as it were , than they are in the Bible . |
| 15 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 16 | Afterwards he was haunted by the sound his footsteps had made in the brooding post-dawn silence , the crunch and crackle of his shoes breaking ice . |
| 17 | Born in France , his parents had emigrated to the United States , but in 1912 Lufbery had joined forces with a daredevil French aviator called Marc Pourpe . |
| 18 | Neither of his parents had come to the wedding . |
| 19 | He had dropped the bottle of liquid , and then his feet had slipped on the treacherous tiled floor . |
| 20 | While making a final check in the loft , his feet had slipped on the wet glassy joists . |
| 21 | His feet had slipped from the kicked steps and he was sliding down a water slope that ended , abruptly , at the chasm about twenty-five metres below . |
| 22 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 23 | Somehow his feelings became detached from the critical procedures ( not that he does not handle and assess his own work critically , which he does ) . |
| 24 | The big Aussie fast bowler had drawn sympathetic applause from the crowd by literally dragging himself wearily from the field at both lunch and tea — minutes after his team-mates had run up the steps . |
| 25 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 26 | A couple of weeks later Stephen was called away to Bradford , where the manager of one of his mills had disappeared with the wages of the whole workforce . |
| 27 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 28 | The earl was one of the promoters of the canal , which was opened to traffic in 1794 , and he continued to use it after his rivals had switched to the railway . |
| 29 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 30 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |