Example sentences of "and his [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macmillan briefly concluded : " We had a conference with the general and his officers covering much the same ground as those with Gens McCreery and Harding yesterday . |
| 2 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 3 | The foul weather continued , and Paul would arrive home every night with his coat soaked and his shoes letting in water . |
| 4 | The form begins with the practitioner standing naturally , his feet shoulder-width apart and his arms hanging loosely by his side . |
| 5 | Best of all is the chance to hear Zappa and his Mothers jamming with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at New York 's Fillmore East . |
| 6 | ‘ Who 's that lying on the runway Who 's that lying in the snow It 's Matt Busby and his boys Making such a f***in noise cause they ca n't get the aeroplane to go ’ |
| 7 | On the contrary , he is carefully , deliberately , often methodically and painstakingly modelling his career and his activities according to the statements of the prophets . |
| 8 | Prosecutors showed the court 118 videos of Tabet and his friends having sex with 518 women and girls . |
| 9 | Paul has heard John and his friends going on about concentration camps for people with HIV . |
| 10 | FitzAlan did n't look any drier , she thought critically , his blond hair darkened with rain , his tunic drenched , and his boots squelching with every step . |
| 11 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 12 | I could see Bonefish and his sons working the lateen-sail of their skiff way beyond the reef , perhaps looking for turtles which they could sell to the men who exported the rich flesh to the Japanese . |
| 13 | Going to a posh school and his parents having money . |
| 14 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 15 | Just how successful Reagan was as governor of California has , not surprisingly , been the subject of dispute , with his supporters exaggerating his achievements and his opponents giving him less than his due . |
| 16 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 17 | Michael was not sure , because the only time he had flown , to Dublin , he 'd been sick , aware only of noise and vibration , and his ears behaving strangely . |
| 18 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 19 | And off she went , driving carefully , through South London , and east , and under the river , and north , and up the A113 , towards the Garfield Centre , thinking of Brian frying up the cold boiled potatoes for himself and their son Sam , chopping parsley , frying eggs and bacon , delicious ; Brian handled the frying pan as confidently as he handled the car , eggs never broke for Brian , he had a firm grasp of the material world , of pan handles and gear levers and of her own warm body , of garden spades and wayward boilers , of carving knives and power drills and saws and scissors and invisible screws ; he treated all these things as his friends and allies , an Ideal Husband , she sometimes teased him : and yet , and yet , he spent his days and his nights teaching abstractions , he spent his time with words , words , words . |
| 20 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 21 | I stared at his thin purply-grey T-shirt and his shoulder-blades heaving underneath . |
| 22 | Fred sat on the end of the bed with his elbows on his knees and his hands hanging down with their knuckles back to back , like a tired football player in a dressing-room . |
| 23 | Lying awake in the room next to hers , the episode with the boy had kept recurring to him , the sweat running on the boy 's face and his hands protruding from the sleeves of the dog's-tooth suit and his voice making its extraordinary statements . |
| 24 | He looked comical , his eyebrows twitching and his hands waving in distress . |
| 25 | Luke 's mouth pleasured while it dominated , and his hands roaming insolently about her body were creating havoc , the skilled , confident caresses to which he subjected her a bold proclamation of ownership . |
| 26 | The desk lamp was on , and his hands moving over the piles of money were bathed in yellow light . |
| 27 | Leaning forward , he pressed himself against her back , his mouth kissing the nape of her neck , and his hands raising her skirt , creeping fingers against her thighs , touching her in that most private part . |
| 28 | As a boy in high school he 'd progressed from World-War-I aircraft-kits to model railways , his mind and his hands responding most happily to the assemblage of pistons , valves , wheels , with their appropriate adjustments and lubrications . |
| 29 | The public welcome the way we are treating teachers as a professional body by taking the advice of the independent review body , and we look forward to Graham Day and his colleagues producing the kind of advice that we require about how our teachers should be rewarded . |
| 30 | Surprisingly perhaps , the results were highly productive and the basic laws of learning under certain strictly controlled laboratory conditions were achieved through the monumental labours of B. F. Skinner and his colleagues using such amenable subjects as the white rat and the domesticated pigeon . |