Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers . |
| 2 | I was very much his son and it was six or seven weeks before I learned that the self-confidence he 'd given me , genetically and by example , to other people was mere boasting . |
| 3 | She spoke to him soothingly , Dragging out the vowel sounds , " Robby , my little Robby , " The tip of her little finger Tracing down his back As she lovingly stroked Her fickle friend . |
| 4 | The Profitboss screws down his inventory before he screws up his profits . |
| 5 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 6 | Stories vary widely , some say he took off his apron and laid down his knife before he went to the Bank to tackle the Manager . |
| 7 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |
| 8 | Ludovico slowly slid her down his body and she kissed the skin of his torso , excited by its masculine smell . |
| 9 | He told me I should be grateful as this was the first Sunday lunch-time down his local that he 'd missed in five years . |
| 10 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 11 | The injury is half way down his off-fore and it looks as though he will be out for the rest of the season . |
| 12 | Roberto had tears running down his face before he played his second shot . |
| 13 | Towards the close of A Call to the Unconverted you can well imagine tears rolling down his cheeks as he pleads with his hearers , ‘ If I came hungry or naked to one of your doors , would you not part with more than a cup of water to relieve me ? |
| 14 | He pulled down his mouth as he studied his glass . |
| 15 | He waded in with his sword swinging , and felt the jar down his arm as it almost decapitated an animal . |
| 16 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |
| 17 | But only his heir till she had a babe of her own . |
| 18 | Grumbling , he crossed the mirrored lobby , sucking in his paunch as he caught sight of himself . |
| 19 | He sucked in his breath when she found it . |
| 20 | Ruth had taken away his blinkers and he 'd seen her love and revelled in it . |
| 21 | Surere 's eyes gave away his thought before he could stop them . |
| 22 | She would sit and answer back , stripping away his pomposity as she would the layers of an onion , before going into a sulk which could last for days . |
| 23 | Take away his food and he will starve . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He 's trying to gamble away his estate before it falls to the Nazis , but his lifelong losing streak has changed . |
| 25 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |
| 26 | The dry look he threw her over his shoulder as they followed the waiter to a small table in the corner stung her cheeks with colour . |
| 27 | Clouds of smoke trailed over his shoulder as he paced . |
| 28 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 29 | ‘ Has button B stuck , Mr Potter ? ’ she asked , and he murmured something unintelligible at her over his shoulder as he pushed into the revolving doors and spun out into the street . |
| 30 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |