Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Controller of the Silver Mines laid his arms on the table in front of him and clasped his hands together , sinking his head . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ La puta que te pario , ’ he spat at her , but backed away as the evil-looking prongs stroked his eyelashes . |
| 7 | Her trembling fingers traced his kiss on her lips . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jennens drew his libretto from three books of the Old Testament as well as histories of Xenophon and Heroditus . |
| 10 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 11 | Then her fingers found his bare flesh and a streak of intense heat shot through her . |
| 12 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 13 | Charlotte heard the front door close and realized she alone was watching as the white halo of the headlamps traced his progress along the drive . |
| 14 | The University decreed zero hope for recovery for Arthur , though they tried everything they could , and one of the personnel devoted his whole life to Arthur during the six months he was hospitalised there . |
| 15 | Her fingers caught his cheek with a stinging blow . |
| 16 | The treatment itself was distressing and made him feel very ill , but the care and kindness of the medical staff and of the radiologists made his time bearable for both of us . |
| 17 | He paled , and flushed as richly again , and his composure was shaken for a moment ; but the small , testing smile in Isambard 's eyes straightened his shoulders and stiffened his back . |
| 18 | The performances made his customers understandably nervous , and nervous customers do not pass on glowing recommendations to their friends . |
| 19 | Piers wiped his mouth with the napkin and relaxed back in the chair , surveying her through dark , thick lashes . |
| 20 | But during the 16th-century Reformation , fellow Scots made his name a term of abuse . |
| 21 | Dr Kumar said he had realised many Labour supporters shared his sense of deep shock after the election . |
| 22 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 23 | As A J Lubin movingly observes , ‘ His pictures became his companions , his mistresses , and his children . ’ |
| 24 | She took too much notice of his comings and goings and her sharp words pierced his skin ( not as thick as she supposed ) through to the heart . |
| 25 | The problem was that Bismarck did not last and his successors lacked his statesmanship and sensitivity to master the huge country he had created . |
| 26 | Patrick slowly went upstairs , well aware that renewed creaks announced his progress . |
| 27 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 28 | Unionist candidates used his letter to Law as an election leaflet to reassure their supporters and to parade his capture to the nation . |
| 29 | ‘ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life — ’ the words caught his eye . |
| 30 | He closed his eyes and two images entered his mind . |