Example sentences of "his [noun] and [vb pp] " 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 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 3 | An armoured glove filled with a sadist 's hand had reached into his heart and torn out his joy in life and put in its place a seemingly permanent sense of loss and despair . |
| 4 | He evidently studied hard and by Easter 1948 had completed his course and joined MI6 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He combed through his hair with his fingers and headed back to his clothes . |
| 7 | Niall rolled the man gently over on to his back , ripped open his shirt and placed an ear to his chest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , all right , spoilsports , ’ he said , feeling disgruntled , and he sat down , missed his cushion and landed with a painful thump on the floor . |
| 11 | He could no longer be controlled ; even chains were useless , he had often been fettered and chained up , but he had snapped his chains and broken the fetters . |
| 12 | He was , he was the one Vincent the erm cross-dresser had actually had some operations and become nearly Vera and he had actually banged Connie on the head with an ashtray cos Connie was selling his story and sold some personal family photos |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Or the father of four who was knocked off his bike and killed ? |
| 15 | Her husband was knocked of his bike and killed by a drunken driver , who was later sentenced to twenty one months in prison . |
| 16 | Cowley reached his car , snatched the two way radio from the hands of his driver and called for Bodie . |
| 17 | As she turned her back on him , she was breathless with rage , lying staring at the darkened wall of the cabin , aware he had completely turned her confrontation to his advantage and beaten her hands down . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They appeared to be nervous of his presence and left by taxi before finishing their drinks . |
| 20 | JACQUES DELORS swallowed hard , gritted his teeth and sent off the telegram : ‘ Dear John , congratulations on your election victory . |
| 21 | Nowhere was the call for a new attitude more clear than in the inquiry conducted at Manchester University by Michael Sadler and his associates and published in 1907 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 24 | Hope had changed his cravat and put on his best black coat , excellently cut . |
| 25 | Donleavy opened his briefcase and placed an envelope on the bed . |
| 26 | Parking in front of the clubhouse , our pilot grabbed his briefcase and splashed through the downpour to his colleague 's waiting car . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 |
| 28 | She bit the inside of his mouth , and grabbed a handful of his hair and jerked at it . |
| 29 | Sometime in the future , he is chained to his computer and surrounded by his young captors . |
| 30 | 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 . |