Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward took a bottle of whisky out of his pocket and , unexpectedly , two glasses . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you mean ? ’ said Mr Crumwallis , the note of fear back in his voice as if he understood already perfectly well . |
| 3 | It was difficult for Charles to keep a hint of disappointment out of his voice . |
| 4 | " You are delightful , " he replied , and pushed the vision of Topaz out of his mind , for she had no place there now . |
| 5 | She took the thermometer from his mouth , and when she continued to stare at it he was Unable to keep the note of anxiety out of his voice . |
| 6 | There was a silence then Magill heaved a grunt of laughter out of his big chest . |
| 7 | Beryl lifted a slice of ham on to his plate . |
| 8 | Cranston took the greasy piece of parchment out of his wallet and handed it over . |
| 9 | And he pushed Philip , knocking the polythene bag of grain out of his hand . |
| 10 | ‘ Good evening , Mrs Evans , ’ he said apologetically trying to keep the note of astonishment out of his voice . |
| 11 | He set down the plate and taking a piece of newspaper out of his pocket wrapped the fat up and put it in his pocket . |
| 12 | A prolonged breather , during which he took a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and unwrapped it in a leisurely way . |
| 13 | He fishes the seven lumps of sugar out of his coffee . |
| 14 | How naive he was , thought Penelope , trying to see Ianthe bearing a portion of oxtail up to his door . |
| 15 | Mr Whittaker threw the piece of paper down on his desk . |
| 16 | ‘ Here , ’ said Philip , taking the crunched-up ball of paper out of his jeans pocket and throwing it at the boy . |
| 17 | I made her some coffee and she sat and watched while Doone picked a piece of paper out of his breast pocket and handed it to Sam . |
| 18 | He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ . |
| 19 | On the plane , which had armrests a foot wide , made in a plastic that looked like jellied gold lamé , he pretended suddenly to have remembered something and drew a rumpled piece of paper out of his wallet . |
| 20 | Then her hand shot out and she whipped the piece of paper out of his pocket , moving so quickly that he had no chance to stop her . |
| 21 | He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and declaimed : |
| 22 | They took a crate of beer back to his flat in his mother 's home . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's his pleasure , ’ he said , ‘ that figure of mischief over there , to blow any piece of rubbish out of his mouth and challenge me to return it . |
| 24 | But he can not be a chief of staff ; no president can run the risk of seeming to hand the reins of government over to his Number Two . |
| 25 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 26 | A large gust of wind blew a cloud of dust in to his face and he put his back into the wind so that he could wipe the rest of the tears from his cheeks . |
| 27 | Howard looks down at his plate , grinning , and pressing a few crumbs of cheese on to his fingers to nibble . |
| 28 | Jack took Amy and Adam to Hull for the funeral where Amy sobbed her heart out and Adam , less than three months after his Barmitzvah , threw a clod of earth on to his grandad 's coffin as his first act of manhood . |