Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that is as outspoken as an expert on etiquette can dare become in digging the dirt with his agricultural implement instead of a spade . |
| 2 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 3 | ‘ If he went now he would see all his previous life here as a waste of time , and in a way he is wreaking vengeance on his mother by being embittered and something of a failure — saying , look what you 've done to me . ’ |
| 4 | He raised his left hand briefly in a kind of silent salutation , then strode to the comer of the colonnade , leaving me with my formed words unspoken , and called back to the cottage . |
| 5 | He gathered his great weight neatly to a point against Fred 's sickly-looking chest , said ‘ Serve you right ’ in a cheery tone under the roar of the music-hall audience and shoved away , grounding delicately at the foot of the Forum steps and watching his partner with one eye . |
| 6 | ‘ What the hell are you staring at me like that for , you ungrateful bugger ? ’ shouted the old man , thrusting his powerful frame forward in a threatening gesture . |
| 7 | She had glanced at him when directions were needed , observed his chiselled profile just for a moment , saw the unreadable expression , the tightness in his angular jaw , the closed look that told her his thoughts had moved on , were miles away from the insignificant circumstances of the foolish girl beside him . |
| 8 | STANDING in the doorway of his neat £40,000 home in a secluded cul-de-sac in Brandon , Father John Butler spoke publicly for the first time . |
| 9 | Although , like Asterix , he attributed his phenomenal prowess partly to a magic potion , ‘ Superjuice ’ , concocted by his druidical sponsors , Body Ammo , he did n't really need it : ‘ They say I have three balls — I need an outlet for that extra energy . ’ |
| 10 | MacLane slapped his open palm lightly with a leaded length of rubber hosepipe . |