Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , she had never managed to develop a hide quite tough enough for his barbs to bounce off , and it seemed she never would . |
| 2 | But they did n't go in a book ; they were only for his friends to read . |
| 3 | Philip Snowden , dour but competent , became Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and the avuncular Arthur Henderson , who alone of his colleagues had sat in the Cabinets of Asquith and Lloyd George , Home Secretary . |
| 4 | According to one loyalist thirties thirty or so of his colleagues think it 's more fun to vote against the Government , a smaller number go further , they think a spell in opposition might enhance their own careers . |
| 5 | Visits to school were few and far between and it was not long before his parents washed their hands of him . |
| 6 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 7 | Whereas Sutherland describes the Augustan poet as a man at dinner with his friends , Sitter leaves the impression of the mid-century poet alone in his rooms gnawing a joint . |
| 8 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 9 | Something most of his patients gave willingly : a confession . |
| 10 | He lay in a sort of mental haze until a feeling of restriction just below his buttocks penetrated his still slumbering state . |
| 11 | A cook from the kitchens took one in the eye and stumbled backwards with his hands pressed to his temples . |
| 12 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 13 | The Dalai Lama had said on March 10 that unless China responded soon to his proposals made in June 1988 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg , he would consider himself not bound by the five-point peace plan , although he remained committed to negotiations with China . |
| 14 | I landed on Shadwell , who was already on his feet screaming at the technicians . |
| 15 | Charles was already on his feet looking sheepish . |
| 16 | But Charlie was already on his feet advancing up the hill . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 18 | Still with his hands cuffed in front of him , he took it full on the jaw . |
| 19 | Not only was the rehearsal space larger but here Tiller was able to have an imposing office which he decorated with caricature drawings of himself showing large heads on small ( but fat ) bodies , and always with his hands clasped behind his back . |
| 20 | He breathed deeply with his eyes shut and I smelt a baked saltiness coming from his jeans and was reminded of Franky . |
| 21 | His hand had reached for her and a sigh of relief at finding her had come from him and she had turned deeply into his arms to let him hold her there . |
| 22 | It seemed incredible now that Luke had held her in those heart-rocking moments , that the hands which were now thrust deeply into his pockets had caressed her until she was torn with longing . |
| 23 | He is champion of the sceptics , and he sallies forth with his banners flying . |
| 24 | So , by the end of the nineteenth century , there was little in Co-operation , or in trade unionism , that Owen could have identified directly with his proposals to reconstitute the state as an industrial democracy and to create the productive classes , master-manufacturers and work-people , into a great estate of the realm . |
| 25 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 26 | She did indeed look more stunning than he had ever in his dreams imagined . |
| 27 | How smartly round his Temples fell |
| 28 | He rebelled early in his career against the constricting standards of the Victorian era and while still in his teens began to take a passionate interest in Welsh poetry . |
| 29 | How would you respond if you knew that after his previous failures to find answers he had cried out louder and more often , and that the scars of the razor blades were still on his wrists to show it ? |
| 30 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |