Example sentences of "[pron] could get his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 2 | With a slight wiggle of the hips he could get his pants to descend below his buttocks after about twenty steps . |
| 3 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 4 | But there was so little time left now , for he could get his papers any day … |
| 5 | Trent turned his body slowly so that he could get his hands on the rope . |
| 6 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 7 | And the leading man of the railway union went out and bought all the shares he could get his hands on and off the railway company . |
| 8 | All he could get his hands on . |
| 9 | Ralph Williams is just 39 and for 30 of those years , he 's bought every ancient tractor or old machine he could get his hands on . |
| 10 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |