Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he was talking , he was sliding out of bed , still trying to face his wife , but finally leaping up with a glad cry and rushing for the door , clad only in his pyjama top , his penis smacking against his thighs as he ran , as she noted . |
| 2 | Regrettably , he makes the same point in his brilliant collection of causeries In Defence Of Art , gathered together by his wife Aileen , in 1988 , when he links Susan Musgrave 's ‘ inner nightmares ’ to Leonard 's ‘ early poetry ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 4 | No sooner were the words out of his mouth than he glanced anxiously about , his unattractive features relaxing when he saw that his words had fallen only on his stepson 's ears . |
| 5 | In an unusual concession to a man once pilloried daily for his association with the Cultural Revolution and Mao 's despised widow Jiang Qing , his remains were cremated at Peking 's Babaoshan cemetery , a privilege normally reserved for senior cadres . |
| 6 | This fine actor 's last work will be pieced together for his family . |
| 7 | He 'd let them down disgracefully , ruining a dinner party that was given entirely for his benefit . |
| 8 | When Sakharov suffered last summer from thrombophlebitis , a serious condition , he was treated only by his wife . ’ |
| 9 | Morrissey deserves to be quizzed relentlessly on his attitude towards the Asian community , Asian culture , the NF , Britain 's generation and the myth of ‘ Englishness ’ . |
| 10 | As Alfred Oliver begins to rise , a blunt instrument is smashed forcibly upon his head , followed by more blows incessantly raining down upon the elderly tobacconist . |
| 11 | Sangster has also fared badly through his involvement with Classic Thoroughbreds , a more recent venture . |
| 12 | He believed that Resenence Jeopardy had penetrated deeper into his soul than that . |
| 13 | the spatter of freckles over the craggy nose and wide forehead , and the thatch of red hair springing under the headphones , and thought how like the boy was to his father , that redoubtable , thrice-decorated peer , whole courage was equalled only by his obstinacy and naivete . |
| 14 | His concern for the souls of the rich was equalled only by his fear of the impatience of the poor ; he lived in daily fear of revolution . |
| 15 | She 'd suddenly found herself staring at his hands , which were clenched together behind his back . |
| 16 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 17 | He said that his passion for football had come long before his interest in composing . |
| 18 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 19 | Carrie 's hand dropped away from his arm and there was relief in her voice when she said , ‘ I saw you leaving and was worried about you . ’ |
| 20 | SINGER Julian Lennon looks to have got a bit carried away with his shopping . |
| 21 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 22 | Carried away by his success young Thomas Borrow had knocked down the officer , then aggravated his offence by twice striking to the ground his master , Mr. Hambly . |
| 23 | He laughed again , carried away by his pun . |
| 24 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 25 | To these difficulties he himself added immensely by his insistence on extending his reforms to Hungary and the Austrian Netherlands . |
| 26 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 27 | On 27 and 31 July he made two final appeals to Leopold , who had responded curtly to his son 's enthusiastic descriptions of his recent musical success ; and on 4 August the lovers were married at St Stephen 's Cathedral , with only Constanze 's mother , her younger sister , her guardian , and two other witnesses present . |
| 28 | For instance : Donald White might have come home with his mother 's laundry , read a chunk of Moby Dick , shot a few baskets , and kicked back to watch The Arsenio Hall Show . |
| 29 | The Baül poet is fully conscious that his value in the marketplace of the world is pitifully small ; that he is neither wealthy nor learned , yet he has this great compensation , for he has come close to his lover 's heart . |
| 30 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |