Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few deep breaths to steady his racing pulse , and he was ready . |
| 2 | Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality , slapping it down , groaning . |
| 3 | He had seen Caballeros make his 3 and knew that unless the Spaniard cracked he would need to finish with two birdies himself . |
| 4 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 5 | It was from a corner that Malcolm Allen headed the second after 18 minutes to claim his eighth of the season before Andy May volleyed the third from the edge of the box against his former club . |
| 6 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 7 | The Controller of the Silver Mines laid his arms on the table in front of him and clasped his hands together , sinking his head . |
| 8 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 9 | Andy Reed 's lineout provision had created that chance and the Bath lock could prove a real dark horse for the Lions given his sterling deeds at restarts , a superb chopping of Mike Hall , a dive pass from a ruck and his arrival in the burn-out of Gavin Hastings ' break which required more last-gasp heroics , this time from Stuart Davies , to prevent a try . |
| 10 | He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts . |
| 11 | One deduction we might draw from this is that the examples of Anderson 's modesty noted above , when seen in the context of his more pompous utterances and these attempts to preserve his academic credibility , are more likely to be viewed simply as superficial politeness strategies than as being genuinely meant . |
| 12 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 13 | An anonymous letter from an opponent of the regime in Franconia , condemning the ‘ puppet show ’ of the Reichstag and claiming ninety per cent of Germans shared his own desire , that Hitler ‘ disappear from the face of the earth as fast as possible ’ , was an absurd exaggeration . |
| 14 | Artists sought his favour more often than they sought his wife 's , which is hardly surprising since he had more power and patronage to dispense . |
| 15 | Then Maggie 's fingers touching his sleeve lightly stopped his departure as she said , ‘ Do n't take any notice of her , sit yourself down there . ’ |
| 16 | CHRIS COBLEY follows-up last month 's fascinating interview with a look at the reasons why he prefers herbs to treat his fish . |
| 17 | But there is no mention of the fact that Scheiner was put under pressure by his superiors to curb his anti-Aristotelian conjectures . |
| 18 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 19 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 20 | in the shit , his fucking gone clang , this blokes got his fucking nuts and the next thing he sees is a big fucking plaster balls alone and he 's , he 's got up his wife , he 's having a right old night with here and he 's leaving , and he says I do n't need you , I did n't need |
| 21 | Just as the pilgrim who travels to the earthly Jerusalem leaves behind him all his possessions to enable his journey , so Hilton teaches that that which propels the inner journey is a balancing of the will and the mind in the simultaneous awareness that nothing is possible without God who must therefore be desired above all else . |
| 22 | ‘ La puta que te pario , ’ he spat at her , but backed away as the evil-looking prongs stroked his eyelashes . |
| 23 | Under the old system A takes proceedings in the Common Law Courts to establish his rights ; B has no legal defence ; he must go to the Court of Chancery to get , among other things , an injunction to forbid A to go on . |
| 24 | Her trembling fingers traced his kiss on her lips . |
| 25 | She let her fingers explore his body , inch by inch , as he trailed expert lips and hands over her breasts , her stomach , her thighs . |
| 26 | Hard fingers encircled his arm and haled him out of the room , and he went like one in a dream , unable to resist but ready for some treacherous pitfall to open under his feet at every step . |
| 27 | He spent several weeks in hospital , and needed three operations to repair his damaged liver . |
| 28 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
| 29 | Having spent a couple of hours checking his rabbit snares around the low Severn grounds , the two fat rabbits now secure in his waist bag would indicate that this could be his lucky night It was now one thirty a.m . |
| 30 | Terry nodded and looked away to one of the machines , twiddling the knobs to hide his nervousness . |