Example sentences of "of his body " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in hospital several days later of multiple injuries , including a ruptured liver , six fractured ribs , two broken fingers and severe bruising to 70 per cent of his body . |
| 2 | About a second before a subject moves a part of his body , a slow negative shift in the electrical potential generated by the brain begins . |
| 3 | Suppleness or flexibility is vital to the tennis player who needs the ability to move the various parts of his body through a full range of movements , often at full stretch . |
| 4 | The brilliant bravura variation when Kitri springs lightly forwards sur les pointes whilst fanning herself and Basil attempts to make his zapateado ( heel-tapping ) appear authentic by the slightly crouching pose of his body , add even greater panache to their efforts . |
| 5 | It is from an avowedly philosophical perspective that Roger Scruton announces ‘ the major structural feature of perversion ’ to be ‘ the habit of finding a sexual release that avoids or abolishes the other , obliterating his embodiment with the obscene perception of his body ’ ; as such , believes Scruton , it is narcissistic and often solipsistic ( Sexual Desire , 289,343 ) . |
| 6 | I get a bit of a shock when I see that , cos it comes away from the rest of his body . |
| 7 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 8 | At other times , the demands of his body clock and society coincided but then much of his time would be spent catching up on lost sleep . |
| 9 | The free play of air around him defined and set the limits of his body in a way that he had completely forgotten . |
| 10 | A dolphin caller would go into a dream where his spirit went out of his body and sought the dolphin folk in their home under the western horizon and invited them to a dance , with feasting , in the village . |
| 11 | Nor does the estate come to an end with the tenant 's death : it passes to his heirs , but only to a limited class of heirs , ‘ the heirs of his body ’ , that is , his descendants . |
| 12 | Part of him longed to tell her the true tale , though , sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl 's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body . |
| 13 | Hundreds of metres up in the sky above Ashdale , he was running along the Edge with every last fibre of his body . |
| 14 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 15 | Again , Simon threw the top half of his body over the drum , sinking it with his weight . |
| 16 | ‘ Now then , Miss Thorne , ’ he said , brisk of voice , weighing down the end of the narrow bed so that Alida , if she moved her left leg , could feel the pressure of his body . |
| 17 | It grew natural , and wholesome , out of the curiously emblemed architrave , and the fluids of his body were liquified pearl and amethyst . |
| 18 | Hours of questioning , blood tests , sperm tests , photographs , examination of every inch of his body . |
| 19 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 20 | In 1331 Ralph Neville was appointed to that office , and several of his descendants secured a like appointment , culminating in the grant in 1443 to Richard Neville , Earl of Gloucester , of the northern Forest justiceship to hold as an hereditary office for himself and ‘ the heirs male of his body ’ , with certain Forest rents and revenues and ‘ power to appoint at will all foresters and officers in Inglewood Forest ’ . |
| 21 | Luke , who has a large scar from heart surgery from his throat to the left side of his body , needs regular medication to prevent fits . |
| 22 | When a don fails to return at the start of term , the shock at the discovery of his body in a Parisian church is well contained in the cloisters . |
| 23 | His head bobbed independent of his body . |
| 24 | Whether he stood or sat his form was full of dignity ; the good proportion and grace of his body prevented the observer from noticing that his neck was rather short and his person rather too fleshy . |
| 25 | Trent twisted as he fell , the whole weight of his body tearing the rifle free of the man 's hands . |
| 26 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 27 | Did they have to sit him in a swivel chair that swung sideways with every movement of his body ? |
| 28 | Instantly , by some perverse chemistry of his body or nervous system , he feels tired and drowsy , reluctant to leave the warm bed . |
| 29 | The community occupational therapist also assesses whether the patient has any perceptual problems , such as an inability to recognize left and right , or total lack of awareness of the affected side of his body . |
| 30 | The patient follows the same pattern of washing his face , then the rest of his body . |