Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to write a book on , um , the influence of structuralism on feminist literary criticism , and I 'd asked his advice . ’ |
| 2 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 3 | " My dear old Uncle Billy died recently and I 've inherited his circus . |
| 4 | And I 've remembered his name cos I kept thinking of Charles . |
| 5 | I got John to join the library and I take and I 've got his er I 've got his ticket . |
| 6 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 7 | He seemed a really pleasant , friendly man , and I had admired his running before . |
| 8 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 9 | Dad and I finished packing his things . |
| 10 | He 's confident , too , claiming : ‘ Benn has taken a great risk in fighting me because , like Ruddock , he is very predictable and I aim to exploit his lack of variety . |
| 11 | " Father , " she said quietly , " Dom João has asked me to be his wife and I have accepted his keepsake . |
| 12 | When the lights came up and I turned to ask his reactions , I found him sitting speechless , tears coursing down his cheeks . |
| 13 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 14 | ‘ Nolan likes to be the centre of attention and you 've usurped his pinnacle , ’ Lewis said . |
| 15 | Then what would you have thought if Harry Goodhaven had disappeared for ever yesterday afternoon and you 'd found his car later by a cliff , real or metaphorical ? ’ |
| 16 | You have kept this march inviolate from the encroachments of the Prince of Gwynedd , and you have seen his inroads on those less wary and less able than yourself . |
| 17 | ‘ And you have read his book , I suppose ? ’ |
| 18 | I mean if one of them steps under a bus and you start valuing his estate for probate , Ullo , ullo , ullo , how much is a case of Russian grenades worth ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I understand , ’ said Snizort , who had lived in a world where entire civilisations had been lost and who had spent his life searching for fragments of them . |
| 20 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 21 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 26 , the merger represented a particular threat to Kim Young Sam , the former opposition leader who drew his support from Pusan port in Kyongsang , and who had taken his supporters into the merger which formed the ruling Democratic Liberal Party in February 1990 . |
| 22 | At this level of intimate contact with the sovereign were to be found also his medical advisers , chief among them Dr Conneau , another one of the faithful who had accompanied the Prince at Boulogne and who had shared his imprisonment at Ham . |
| 23 | And when he 'd finished and been weighed again and she 'd changed his diaper and put it in the special container to go away for the chemical analysis — And a nasty old job that must be to do ! |
| 24 | The man who called himself John looked at her increasingly steadily , lengthily , certainly , and she began to hold his glances and eventually to return them . |
| 25 | His weight had increased since their marriage , and she began to dread his nightly activity , but she accepted it without complaint as the price she had to pay for Corrie . |
| 26 | He stretched willingly across her knees , and she began to wallop his bare backside with sharp , stinging blows . |
| 27 | And she had seen his picture in trade papers and yachting magazines , usually alongside an article extolling his brilliance , not only as a prizewinning designer in the highly competitive world of trans-ocean racing , but also as a respected if demanding skipper . |
| 28 | He had helped one woman with a pushchair and screaming infant on to a bus earlier , and she had gripped his hand tightly in hers as she had said thank you . |
| 29 | She continued to stand there , eyes closed tightly , long after the front door had closed behind him and she had heard his car disappear down the drive . |
| 30 | And before she knew what had happened , his knuckles had slipped inside her pelvis , and she had swallowed his whole fist inside her dewy cavern . |