Example sentences of "his [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had his fingers around the woman 's throat and was banging her head against the back of the seat . |
| 2 | She took the gun , and put it into his hand properly , wrapping his fingers around the butt , shoving his forefinger through the trigger-guard , and held the barrel to his ear . |
| 3 | He locked his fingers around the joystick again and gripped it tightly in the angle of the dive , hearing the engine-note climb and the wing bracings develop a piercing whistle that merged into a slow shriek . |
| 4 | Jacklin instanced the case of Jim Colbert , a good friend and a solid journeyman professional on the regular US Tour in his heyday , who has now made $1.8 million on the US Seniors Tour and pays his caddie $140,000 a year just to drive his clubs around the course in a golf kart . |
| 5 | He drew his gun , letting it guide his eyes around the rest of the chamber . |
| 6 | Toughening their endurance by frequent climbs to nearly 3,000 feet ( 900m ) up the crags of Goat Fell on Arran they saw , when it was not raining — a rare occasion in west Scotland — Lieutenant Roger Courtney at sea , training his canoeists around the island 's choppy waters where a short sharp sea comes up with little warning . |
| 7 | It certainly did for Simon Turner , who read a feature on these pages a year ago written by Godfrey Hodgson on his travels around the Michelin ‘ Red Rocker ’ hotels in the region around Toulouse in south-west France . |
| 8 | After his retirement in 1920 he continued his travels around the world , and on board the MV Alcinous bound for Australia he died 27 October 1938 and was buried at sea latitude 37° 13' N , longitude 11° 107' E. |
| 9 | Had he lived , and continued in his intention to write poetry , he would probably now be another ageing rocker with literary pretensions , creaking his wares around the stadiums just like the Stones , The Who , Dylan and the Grateful Dead . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
| 11 | He could apparently still afford to give me lamb and rice , but the mood among his friends around the table was despairing . |
| 12 | Each of his friends around the table , he realizes , is surrounded with a kind of aura . |
| 13 | He threw one of his arms around the dog and ate from the same dish . |
| 14 | Daniel put his arms around the woman and her children . |
| 15 | " Look there , " whispered Paul , draping his arms around the shoulders of both American boys and turning them to face across the street . |
| 16 | He would take the Newfoundland for walks across the Trouville sands , and in the soft secrecy of a dune he would drop down on his knees and wrap his arms around the dog . |
| 17 | Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin . |
| 18 | He shut his eyes tight and locked his fists around the joystick . |
| 19 | Samuel Pipkin , eagerness all over his face , had bounded up to the reading desk , arranged to look identical to that used by Dickens himself in his tours around the country . |
| 20 | " But it was my fault , " Patrick continued , wrapping his hands around the cup , bringing it up to his lips as if to hide his face . |
| 21 | He puts his hands around the pot and warms them . |
| 22 | Several years after the Tennant 's moved to Glenconner Farm , Ochiltree , old John Tennant learned that the village crier required a horn to sound before he made his proclamations around the district , so he had a silver mounting and mouthpiece fitted to the bullock 's horn and presented it to the village . |