Example sentences of "sometimes his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes his painting is large and passionate and other times it is more pretty , it depends how he feels . |
| 2 | Sometimes his superiors did put their foot down . |
| 3 | I 'd sit on his lap and he 'd stroke me and rabbit on , and this sound would crop up with a kind of sighing and sometimes his voice would have an edge to it , too . |
| 4 | Sometimes his work is immediate and comic : ‘ Elephants trumpet for his creed , he travels quicker than wildebeest . |
| 5 | Sometimes his questions of only provoked blank glances , muttered oaths and shaken heads . |
| 6 | Just sometimes his ego gets out of line . ’ |
| 7 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes his fingers strayed between her lips and when she closed her mouth she accidentally sucked on them . |
| 9 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 10 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 11 | I know , sometimes his hackles come up with another dog do n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes his suffering seems so bad you lose hope completely , ’ she says . |
| 13 | Royal acta , especially charters , but also letters and judgements , allow the pattern of royal patronage to be reconstructed ; and incidentally give information on the king 's itinerary and sometimes his entourage . |
| 14 | Sometimes his decisions are made on grounds of convenience : after most newspapers in Britain committed contempt of court over the arrest of " Yorkshire Ripper " Peter Sutcliffe , the Attorney decided against prosecuting on the ground that he would have to put dozens of editors in the dock . |
| 15 | Although he was opposed to war and sometimes his pacifist fervour offended strangers during the war years , nevertheless to be rejected as a weakling was an affront to a proud and physically courageous man like Modigliani . |
| 16 | Sometimes his concern with changing the way she looked amused Victoria , but at other times she found it upsetting . |
| 17 | Sometimes his ideas are good , but when they 're not , he 's unable to recognise the fact . |
| 18 | He drove with fierce concentration , and sometimes his fierceness spilled over on to the passengers — especially on to Barbara , who sat beside him and navigated . |
| 19 | Sometimes his passion gets the better of him . |
| 20 | Sometimes his mother chased him through the apartment , striking at him while he dodged and ducked , crying , ‘ Look out Mom , look out now ! |
| 21 | Sometimes his patients lacked the kind of knowledge that would have enabled them to interpret the experience as ‘ sexual ’ at all . |
| 22 | Sometimes his segmentation is highly contentious . |
| 23 | And sometimes his hand would creep a bit higher , and then when I was near fit to burst with joy he 'd stop his tickling and say : ‘ Ay , but I should n't do that , should I ? |
| 24 | Ranulf , nudging Maltote , leered at the pretty ladies in their fillets and low-waisted dresses ; sometimes his words were drowned by the clamour of the crowd and the mid-day peal of the bells of London tolling for prayers from their great stone-washed , stately towers . |
| 25 | No one called him Phil except sometimes his Uncle Walter . |
| 26 | Sometimes his Bible meetings are very interesting and another time it can be very boring . |
| 27 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 28 | Sometimes his Spidergob mates gave him a bit of a skragging on account of it ; not like what you 'd skrag a Mad Dog or a Scarface , if you ever got the chance , ‘ course . |
| 29 | Maurice was speaking more slowly ; sometimes his lips seemed to tremble but his manner was once more tentative and self-deprecating . |
| 30 | SOMETIMES HIS songs are great , elsewhere he 's a bit dull . |