Example sentences of "of his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one-liner style of stand-up and get rid of his immortal catch-phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus ! ’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . |
| 2 | She locked her arms around the small of his back and pulled him hard into her , crazed by the sensation caused by his utter maleness enveloping her softness . |
| 3 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 4 | It is a most important matter that a councillor should not take advantage of his position and use it for his own personal gain . |
| 5 | Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends . |
| 6 | He propped his absence o arse against the rim of his desk and contemplated me . |
| 7 | He guided her hand to the hard surface of his chest and placed it above his heart . |
| 8 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 9 | The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts . |
| 10 | As Guy Boas has described , he would welcome his creditors , immaculately dressed , and ‘ beg them to share a bottle of the best wine , charm them with the wit of his conversation and send them away exchanging many mutual compliments and almost oblivious of their mission . ’ |
| 11 | He flicked imaginary dust from the sleeve of his jacket and informed her , ‘ As you must surely be aware , Kirsty has already been placed in my custody . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he asked conversationally , divesting himself of his jacket and slinging it over the sofa . |
| 13 | In a nightmare-blur of frenzied activity , Cardiff saw Duvall lunging back through the storm in their direction , a shower of sparkling glass on his shoulders ; saw Rohmer seize Gilbert by the collar of his jacket and whirl him away bodily from the monstrous , thrashing shape and drag him backwards , hair and coat whipping madly in the hellwind . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I shall watch while she drinks her fill of his manhood and sucks him dry of his accursed wolfseed . |
| 15 | These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments . |
| 16 | And once their physical usefulness was at an end , the Robemaker tore out the souls of his slaves and carried them to the Soul Eaters in the Cruachan Cavern , which some believed were the Gates of Hell . |
| 17 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 18 | Since Karajan had a love-hate relationship with the camera , loathing its intrusions into music-making in the concert hall and uneasy with formal portraits , Steiner 's observations have to be seen in their context , though it is undoubtedly the case that there was a quality of coolness and detachment about Karajan that shaped some of his music-making and made him , among other things , so formidable an interpreter of Sibelius and late Mahler . |
| 19 | He said that he did not think that it was a high priority to ask the Home Secretary to take £40 million out of his budget and put it on to the Secretary of State for Transport 's budget . |
| 20 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |
| 21 | It was n't the uncertain nature of his livelihood that worried him , nor the police visits , although he had twice been invited to accompany the officers to the station . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Hilton continues to delineate an image of inner development which will stimulate the imagination of his disciple and enable her to recognise and order her own experience ; his great skill is to tie in the particularities of his teaching with the overall pattern of the Incarnation so that meditation on the Passion provides the constant focus for an ever deepening understanding . |
| 23 | Prentice got out of his Escort and locked it , then pointed to the gates of the school yard . |
| 24 | He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor . |
| 25 | As he starts to crumple at my feet , I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright . |
| 26 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 27 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 28 | He shrugs off the jacket of his suit and drapes it over the back of a chair . |
| 29 | We shall examine the results of his experiments and compare them with the results that we would expect if the records were perfectly randomized . |
| 30 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |