Example sentences of "in his [noun sg] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore a pistol stuck in his belt and held his knife in his right hand . |
| 2 | The bed was too narrow and Oliver muttered in his sleep and ground his teeth and thrashed about with his fists . |
| 3 | The following year he turned over in his sleep and crashed his leg onto my hipbone . |
| 4 | He settled back in his armchair and put his feet on the coffee-table . |
| 5 | He leaned back in his armchair and regarded her harshly . |
| 6 | Amiss arranged himself more comfortably in his armchair and dangled his leg over the arm . |
| 7 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 8 | Bernard rifled through the change pouch in his wallet and handed her three quarters . |
| 9 | Despite the happy family photos that appeared in the fan magazines , childhood days were miserable days for Joe who said that his dad never held him in his lap and read him stories or took him to ball games . |
| 10 | So he caught them up in his cloak and carried them to the top of the mountain , and there he showed them all the treasures and towns and palaces that were in the world . |
| 11 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 12 | He hauled her bodily from the van in his rage and hurled her in front of him , through the kitchen to the hall , and down the steps that fell away sharply to the brick-built cellar . |
| 13 | Nicky too must have recognised the uncharacteristic gap in his self-absorption and wondered what was coming , because she rushed into speech . |
| 14 | The orchestra played louder — the young man sniffed at the white carnation in his buttonhole and wrinkled his nose in an upper-class fashion . |
| 15 | Maggie put Patrick in his cradle and took her in her arms with motherly concern . |
| 16 | His arms went round her and his lips found hers , and this time when the world fell apart and the sky came crashing down , she clamped her lips together and buried her face in his shoulder and said nothing . |
| 17 | She could smell it on his breath when she kissed him , so she buried her face in his chest and stroked his shoulders . |
| 18 | After a little , she went to Oliver 's room and found a Nux Bar in his satchel and ate it . |
| 19 | Mr Harty said Benson had a substantial sum of money in his possession and sentenced him to six months imprisonment on each of two charges to run consecutively and consecutive to a sentence he was presently serving . |
| 20 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 21 | She looked for sarcasm in his expression and spotted it , just for an instant , hidden in the slight curve at the corner of his mouth . |
| 22 | He felt one in his hair and removed it . |
| 23 | And as he struggled to swim , the woman 's little bone hook caught in his hair and pulled him up . |
| 24 | Masklin stuck a finger in his ear and wiggled it around . |
| 25 | Hillary whispered in his ear and took his speech out of her pocket . |
| 26 | Hrun screwed a finger in his ear and inspected it absently . |
| 27 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 28 | He left home as early as possible , did well in his career and visited his parents as seldom as possible . |
| 29 | Christopher says he surprised intruders in his flat and fought them off . |
| 30 | At 7.00 next morning he placed the basin in his tin and handed it to the attendant , who put it in the hot cupboard . |