Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 2 | This time the hiss was louder and strong fingers gripped his shoulder and shook it , jerking him awake . |
| 3 | He was standing in a pool of blood and water and behind him a line of bloody footprints marked his painful progress from the showers . |
| 4 | Her trembling fingers traced his kiss on her lips . |
| 5 | Oddly enough , Ghanashyam ( A Broken Branch ) approaches opera in the nature of the story it tells : originating in village festivities , the tale unfolds a rake 's progress towards perdition , in this case via drugs , but with an extra metaphysical twist when the spirit of the departed returns to inhabit his wife . |
| 6 | Its title is ‘ Out of Sight Out of Mind ’ ( 14 February-20 March ) , and director Nicholas Logsdail has selected fifty artists to illustrate his theme . |
| 7 | Halzen plans to put his phototubes into holes melted in the ice sheet , then let them freeze in place . |
| 8 | But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient . |
| 9 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 10 | Dr Kumar said he had realised many Labour supporters shared his sense of deep shock after the election . |
| 11 | Zak waved , retreated and set off down the corridor , flat-footed almost at once after his bounce in the dining car , and already with drooping shoulders consulting his notebook about what he needed to do next . |
| 12 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 13 | Amnesty International issued urgent appeals calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to clarify his fate and whereabouts , and to provide assurances that he will not be ill-treated or executed . |
| 14 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 15 | The eyes in his skull-like face have long sunk into their sockets , and the rotted remains of a few teeth share his fetid mouth with a blackened , slightly forked tongue . |
| 16 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Once she was inside his trousers , her slim fingers caressed his sleeping organ until it jumped in her hand as if it had been bitten . |
| 19 | In Bangor 's Good Temple Hall , where all five candidates held their only public meeting together under the auspices of the Christian Election Forum , Mr Kilfedder lost few opportunities to emphasise his lengthy Westminster experience to an audience of more than 300 . |
| 20 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 21 | Others feel that Freud used too few subjects to test his theories . |
| 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 | The emphasis on the last few words gave his game away . |
| 24 | Lord Keith 's career , in which he held important commands in distant waters , particularly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean , gave him further opportunities to strengthen his political interest by advancing his friends in the service . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , when a minister with a firm grip on government patronage was involved , a refusal to offer such a return would effectively deprive the member of parliament of further opportunities to aid his own constituents . |
| 26 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 27 | He has been installed as writing development worker at Darlington Library and plans to inspire would-be authors to follow his example . |
| 28 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
| 29 | AT THE height of last week 's farcical premiership crisis , President Mitterrand slipped out of the Elysee Palace under the lenses and noses of the encamped journalists awaiting his decision , and went shopping . |
| 30 | If anything , the psychological condition of the black sportsman should be tension-packed given the social circumstances surrounding his involvement . |