Example sentences of "his [noun sg] and [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ptah 's creation of the world was conceived by the thought of his heart and uttered into reality by his tongue , through the power of his word . |
| 2 | A thin splinter of moonlight caught the blond stubble of his beard and sliced like a glistening needle across the snout of a .45 revolver . |
| 3 | If I may return to my earlier metaphor — you will excuse my putting it so coarsely — they are like a man who will , at the slightest provocation , tear off his suit and his shirt and run about screaming . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , all right , spoilsports , ’ he said , feeling disgruntled , and he sat down , missed his cushion and landed with a painful thump on the floor . |
| 5 | The Dickensian waiter flapped his napkin and advised with more truth than tact , ‘ Should n't have turbot today , sir , although the salmon 's passable . ’ |
| 6 | Her husband was knocked of his bike and killed by a drunken driver , who was later sentenced to twenty one months in prison . |
| 7 | Cowley reached his car , snatched the two way radio from the hands of his driver and called for Bodie . |
| 8 | Yet his expressed preference for the worship of the formless does not prevent him from recognizing that God is personal to those who need to feel his presence and embodied to those who desire to experience his touch . |
| 9 | They appeared to be nervous of his presence and left by taxi before finishing their drinks . |
| 10 | 640 he stood sponsor to King Cynegils at his baptism and joined with Cynegils in giving Dorchester-on-Thames to the missionary bishop , Birinus ( HE 111 , 7 ) ( see above , p. 48 ) . |
| 11 | Hope had changed his cravat and put on his best black coat , excellently cut . |
| 12 | Parking in front of the clubhouse , our pilot grabbed his briefcase and splashed through the downpour to his colleague 's waiting car . |
| 13 | ‘ I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil , ’ Norman Blamey told Julian Halsby when he talked to him recently about his teaching and approached to his own paintings |
| 14 | She bit the inside of his mouth , and grabbed a handful of his hair and jerked at it . |
| 15 | Sometime in the future , he is chained to his computer and surrounded by his young captors . |
| 16 | Hearing of the arrest of Martin Luther King in Georgia , he telephoned King 's wife to express his sympathy and called for the release of the highly respected civil rights leader . |
| 17 | Despite the lines of exhaustion bracketing his mouth and etched at the outer corners of his eyes , his gaze gleamed dangerously . |
| 18 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 19 | Corbett , aching , soaking wet and nauseous from his rough ride was pulled off his horse and bundled along the side of the donjon keep . |
| 20 | Taff drained his mug of tea , turned on his side and crawled into his trench muttering to himself , ‘ He 's cracking up . |
| 21 | Of that I have no doubt , but I am equally certain that it was his own hands which fastened his belt around his neck and fumbled for the window bar . |
| 22 | Shrapnel slashed his neck and lodged in his spine . |
| 23 | The noose was tied around his neck and strung over the beam . |
| 24 | Eventually he struggled free , ran to his car and called for help . |
| 25 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 26 | He lost control of his car and collided with a van being driven by self-employed glazier Stephen Whitehead . |
| 27 | Thomas Bedlowe , Vicar in 1546 was deprived of his living and restored in 1562 , he married Joan Rawlings of Rochester . |
| 28 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 29 | He was frightened , despite the encouraging winks of Deuce and the occasional smile from Doug ; disoriented amid the tropical forest-sized plants , the silent , ceaseless escalators , the glass walls and lifts , the page boys in scarlet and green livery and all manner of sights which would normally have thrilled him and been companionable to his mind and stored for his sister . |
| 30 | They were obviously shocked by his condition and lost for words , but he shocked them further with his . |