Example sentences of "in his [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | André , Alyssia discovered , proved to be alarmingly persistent in his promise to see her as much as possible while she remained in France . |
| 32 | He plugged in his razor to recharge it and washed his face in the gold-tapped sink . |
| 33 | Pearce also met with a considerable degree of resistance from within British Aerospace in his efforts to steer it through privatisation . |
| 34 | He would sit or kneel until his body ached , picking and stroking in his efforts to please her . |
| 35 | The elderly cleric was standing in the doorway in his surplice to welcome them . |
| 36 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 37 | Gently he turned her in his arms to face him , and he kissed her very tenderly on the lips . |
| 38 | While Mary and Joseph are in the Temple , a holy man called Simeon takes Jesus in his arms to bless him . |
| 39 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 40 | ‘ I believe that is the myth , ’ he agreed , twisting her round roughly in his arms to kiss her , lingeringly , on the mouth . |
| 41 | A lot of pushing and shoving went on and I panicked a bit , so Uncle picked me up in his arms to protect me and calm me down . |
| 42 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 43 | Every pilot in his squadron knew it by heart . |
| 44 | ‘ Ask the waiter with the dent in his forehead to give you a bucketful of ice cubes and three or four napkins . |
| 45 | In 1988 Gil Guilemette , of Montreal , was charged with ‘ criminal mischief and loitering ’ in his attempts to meet her . |
| 46 | How often in his life had he admitted guilt before anyone but God ? |
| 47 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
| 48 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 49 | So far removed from normal sense that when he rang the bell at Nutty 's house and her father came down in his dressing-gown thinking it must be the police , he did not understand the excitement . |
| 50 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
| 51 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 52 | His considered assessment was that Ken 's narrative verse was ‘ often cumbrous ’ and his lyric verse ‘ not seldom languid and redundant ; yet all breathing an angelic spirit interspersed with such pure and bright touches of poetry that a reader will scarcely find it in his heart to criticize him ’ . |
| 53 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 54 | Never at any time in his career did he set out solely to defend . |
| 55 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 56 | Taylor refuses to say whether Lineker would still be in his team had he carried on playing in England . |
| 57 | Although I felt sorry for him , that prickliness in his manner made me reluctant to reveal myself . |
| 58 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 59 | Because Dustin had eaten a few hours previously , the anaesthetist had to insert a tube in his mouth to stop him choking on his own vomit . |
| 60 | In 1983 Banerjee and Singh reported that an 8 month old child who put a fish in his mouth aspirated it and choked on it ; unfortunately he did not survive . |