Example sentences of "and [adv] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people were friends of Lowell — and perhaps of his wife . |
| 2 | This will be a new experience for Mr Major , the last and hardest of his political initiation rites . |
| 3 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
| 4 | This work formed the content of his first meteorological papers ( 1921 ) , and also of his Edinburgh D.Sc . |
| 5 | He had already witnessed the incredible speed of his lethal opponent , and also of his fellow oriental whom he had shot and killed in the Control Room . |
| 6 | So the priest addresses God Wherefore also we thy servants , O Lord , and also thy holy people , in memory as well of the blessed passion of the same Christ , thy Son , our Lord , as of his resurrection from the dead , and also of his glorious ascension into the heavens do offer unto thy excellent majesty , of thine own gifts albeit given unto us , a pure , a holy , an undefiled sacrifice , the holy bread of eternal life , and the cup of everlasting salvation . |
| 7 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 8 | As he spoke I noticed , over his shoulder and out of his study window , a large grey bird go past , moving quickly with the wind . |
| 9 | And they still trooped in and out of his house occasionally , looking at him pityingly , as they talked of foreign films , the latest play at the Royal Court and the need for the immediate withdrawal of armed forces from Nicaragua . |
| 10 | He looked better , but he 'd been in and out of his wits so many times in the past weeks there was no knowing . |
| 11 | The bullet , fired at point-blank range , hit him in the middle of the back and travelled upwards and out of his body . |
| 12 | If you can keep your characters partially obscured , or fly them behind the enemy lines and out of his fire arcs then so much the better . |
| 13 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 14 | She switched on the vibrator , and stabbed it in and out of his backside like a demented piston . |
| 15 | ( ALFRED is still half in and out of his robe . |
| 16 | Managers whose consciences tell them that service users ought to have a voice often choose just one articulate , recovered , temporary recipient of the service as a token single voice of the mental health planning committee , where this lone individual often feels at a serious disadvantage , confused by professional jargon and out of his or her depth in the complex and confusing world of statutory agency planning . |
| 17 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 18 | But , as he reached across her to open the door and her fear of being touched did n't materialise , her heartbeat steadied and , contenting herself with a curt nod , she stepped across the threshold and walked briskly down the passageway and out of his sight . |
| 19 | He wanted to be rid of her , to have her out of the office and out of his life , and that was what she wanted too , was n't it ? |
| 20 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 21 | And she was out of the door — and out of his life . |
| 22 | She went quickly through the door and out of his sight , racing up to her room to recover . |
| 23 | Bertha would have been sent the message that she could go hopping sideways — while she herself would have been told to get down the road and out of his sight . |
| 24 | The ragged figure shook with fury , his breath wheezing in and out of his tiny frame . |
| 25 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 26 | When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) . |
| 27 | in and out of his awkward clothes . |
| 28 | This movement in and out of his own text also determines the persuasive force behind de Man 's " theory of language " . |
| 29 | THE footballer John Buckley , who was seriously injured during a league match , was last night off a life-support machine and out of his coma . |
| 30 | John the Fletcher took them out of the water and out of his power for a while , but do you think a man like Isambard would ever forget or forgive the crossing of his decree ? |