Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [that] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McIllvanney shook a cigarette out of a packet , then opened his briefcase that lay on the floor beside his chair . |
| 2 | And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall . |
| 3 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever new movements were started , it was Picasso and his work that served as a rallying cry . |
| 5 | When he declared , ‘ I resign myself to everything and put up with everything ’ , he was rejoicing in his discovery that to behave like a child sometimes worked . |
| 6 | Are you sure it was n't his cat that scored against John ? ? ? |
| 7 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 8 | Tall , thoughtful , a brightness in his eye that hinted at both humour and stubbornness , William Livingstone was an American , but he looked every inch a Scot . |
| 9 | And I looked to behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death . |
| 10 | His hooded eyes were lifeless , and he had the air of a killer , but there was something in his stance that spoke of a rather different man . |
| 11 | There was a booming sound in his skull that came in waves , and his vision was going at the edges , like burning paper dwindling and darkening . |
| 12 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 13 | There is something in his voice that sounds like regret ; he likes to be inside the minds of craftsmen of 400 years ago , making the furniture , building the house . |
| 14 | There was a smug note in his voice that grated against her nerve-ends . |
| 15 | He smiled and made a little admiring gesture with his hand that took in Lepine 's well-cut linen suit , his handmade shoes and silk shirt . |
| 16 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 17 | It is not only the credibility of Mr Major and his lot that needs to be questioned but also their morality . |
| 18 | Bart-Williams ' appearance as a 64th minute substitute transformed the game — and it was his corner that led to Wednesday 's equaliser . |
| 19 | Or was it less his personality that accounted for their compliance than his power — a power so much greater than that of a headmaster within the State system ? |
| 20 | ( Air whistling in his brain that rose in sighs |
| 21 | Similarly , his idea that contact between different cultures merely led to decay and that Magian Jews and Faustian Europeans were bound to live in friction with each other , was to be an important intellectual influence on Mosley 's cultural anti-semitism and to re-inforce his later views on apartheid . |
| 22 | And , just for a moment , in spite of the pain that brought her , it was the thought of his hurt that tore at her heart . |
| 23 | And , erm , so this , it was , in a sense it was not so much as what was repressed in his ears , the structure of his ego that led to this unfortunate consequence . |
| 24 | He made a sweeping gesture with his arm that took in the wilderness of derelict factories beyond the perimeter fence . |
| 25 | Sam Reed had set up two of the goals and in the second half it was his cross that led to Grant 's second goal . |
| 26 | Pat was deeply hurt , but Ken maintained a look on his face that seemed to be as shiny as the brown shoes he wore under those immaculately pressed trousers . |
| 27 | Cowley allowed that slight grimace of disgust to touch his face that told of his total contempt for this particular villain . |