Example sentences of "in his [noun sg] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good performer on the Flat , Vintage Crop won the Cesarewitch at Newmarket last October on his previous trip over from Ireland , but he is bedevilled by muscle problems in his back and has very limited hurdling experience . |
| 2 | Economists and historians of ideas have concentrated on the systematic elements in his thought and created somewhat abstract models of Keynesian theory and belief . |
| 3 | Rather the contrary : in Britain a wastesite operator who finds it too expensive to meet the rules can simply hand in his licence and walk away from the site . |
| 4 | An Irish TD will probably have been born in his constituency and reside there . |
| 5 | Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ford , commanding officer of the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers , twisted in his saddle and stared anxiously at his senior Major who , because he was deaf , had heard nothing . |
| 6 | His brother made no reply , seeming half asleep in his saddle and lagging behind . |
| 7 | Okawi stood in his canoe and yelled triumphantly . |
| 8 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 9 | Tearing a piece of beef off the cut with his fingers he popped it in his mouth and swallowed greedily . |
| 10 | Harry put his tongue in his cheek and looked sideways at Sir Gregory . |
| 11 | He ran quickly out of the laboratory , and I watched him as he left the island in his boat and sailed away across the sea . |
| 12 | " Ah , " Mr Starke said , sitting forward in his seat and looking more interested , " you resigned ? " |
| 13 | But the Substitute caught his movement and , with a quick sidelong smile and a rueful glance at the offending object , he leaned back in his seat and said solemnly : ‘ It 's my only vice . ’ |
| 14 | He slumped back in his seat and stared resentfully through the windscreen . |
| 15 | Every morning since the new treatment had started he had been wakened to the thermometer and a medicine glass , half-full of a yellow , foul-tasting mixture that curdled in his stomach and sat there all day in a poisonous knot , waiting for the smell and taste of food to release its venom again . |
| 16 | Koons takes the photograph in his hand and smiles impishly , looking every bit the boy-next-door in his Reeboks , jeans and button-down shirt . |
| 17 | At Bristol Crown Court Kelly claimed he 'd forgotten the knife was still in his hand and had only meant to punch . |
| 18 | Screaming like an animal , he raised the broken glass in his hand and charged drunkenly towards Cardiff . |
| 19 | Chuck Sherman squirmed in his deckchair and frowned humorously at his mother . |
| 20 | He put the two-way back in his pocket and slipped away , swallowed by the gloom . |
| 21 | He did not speak , stayed in his room and ate there , slept in the daytime and spent many hours listening to the radio . |
| 22 | She saw the worried misery in his face and added gently , ‘ Do n't worry ; I 'll be perfectly all right . |
| 23 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 24 | At Rouen , he finished third , a lap down , and at Brands Hatch , crucified by the pain in his wrist and driving mostly one-handed , the best he could do was sixth place . |
| 25 | Bishop Jon , after a punishing excursion in Thorfinn 's company to Buchan , rode south to Brechin to bathe his feet and get rid of the dust in his throat and found Prior Tuathal from Fife already there , with the Abbot and Malpedar the Mormaer . |
| 26 | The apothecary came in his pony and trap just before Pa got home . |
| 27 | Geoffrey leaned back in his chair and whistled softly . |
| 28 | DeVore turned in his chair and looked across at his lieutenant . |
| 29 | Certainly , as he leaned back in his chair and looked across at her , there was no sign of coolness in the dark eyes . |
| 30 | He leaned back in his chair and breathed heavily . |