Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time the hiss was louder and strong fingers gripped his shoulder and shook it , jerking him awake . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her trembling fingers traced his kiss on her lips . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Halzen plans to put his phototubes into holes melted in the ice sheet , then let them freeze in place . |
| 6 | Dr Kumar said he had realised many Labour supporters shared his sense of deep shock after the election . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He has been installed as writing development worker at Darlington Library and plans to inspire would-be authors to follow his example . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If anything , the psychological condition of the black sportsman should be tension-packed given the social circumstances surrounding his involvement . |
| 15 | By using his head Private W. Ray led the detached party past several German posts to rejoin his platoon commander . |
| 16 | The 48-year-old adventurer was due to start a 2,200-mile trek across the Antarctic at the weekend , but high winds cancelled his flight to the peninsula . |
| 17 | This is signified in Act four when he uses contrasting colours to symbolise his feelings : white for mercy , red for blood , and finally black for death and destruction . |
| 18 | He appointed a seneschal , receiver and auditors to ad-minister his French lands and employed a proctor-general for French affairs to represent his interests at law . |
| 19 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 20 | By paying careful attention to what Marx fails to say ( his ‘ silences ’ ) as well as to what he makes explicit , Althusser hopes to recover two things : the questions Marx was trying to answer , and the general theoretical assumptions underlying his replies . |
| 21 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 22 | And it does give him a few funny stories to tell his mates in the pub . |
| 23 | He was photophobic and always wore a pair of tinted glasses to protect his eyes . |
| 24 | During the week before Mr Ro 's resignation , many leading members of the ruling party made public comments backing his departure . |
| 25 | Old scars criss-crossed his chest and legs . |
| 26 | I did not have the skill to formulate sound arguments to counteract his taste for lawlessness , and explain why I could not partake in it . |
| 27 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 28 | A bondage freak himself , he would get high on dope and then let his sadistic friends use his chest as an ashtray . |
| 29 | TV 'S BULLSEYE star Jim Bowen was left reeling after mindless vandals wrecked his distinctive Rolls-Royce . |
| 30 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to examine his ballets and discover that he mostly set them in countries possessing easily recognised characteristics . |