Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ostensibly her idea was a good one , but she found that praise was , for that child , not a reward at all ; in fact it led to his communicating with her less often . |
| 2 | Flipping the towel over his shoulder , he raked his fingers through his spikily tousled hair a couple of times , restoring it to rough order . |
| 3 | He shook the bread into the broad palm of his hand and closed his fingers over it gently , as if it were alive . |
| 4 | He 'd said as much , the callous swine , flinging his mistress at her deliberately . |
| 5 | They met , he insists , soon after , not before , he began presenting Dance Energy — ‘ I got talking to her and I liked that woman ’ — and his admiration for her today is obvious . |
| 6 | ‘ The man , who is wedded to Truth and worships Truth alone , proves unfaithful to her , if he applies his talents to anything else . |
| 7 | For her there was always a strange excitement in his presence of something about to happen . |
| 8 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 9 | The opinionated William Gilpin , although a native of Cumberland , was an apostle of this creed and his illustrations of his very successful Observations on the lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland ( 1780 ) display a dreary and unidentifiable geological mediocrity . |
| 10 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 11 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
| 12 | Guy broke off , his glance at her surprisingly wary and diffident . |
| 13 | Apart from whether the weak transmissions from a pair of £25-sets operating on the American Citizens ' Band FM frequency could have penetrated the thick walls of Blake 's cell , which were reinforced with cast-iron segments , with no external aerial and close to the 17 feet-high perimeter wall , there is also the question of how Blake managed to keep a radio in his cell without it once being noticed over six months during which he and his cell were regularly searched . |
| 14 | Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror . |
| 15 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 16 | As he felt his own orgasm beginning to pulsate be felt her legs gripping him and drove his penis into her as hard as he could , bursting inside her like a dam . |
| 17 | When he lifted his eyes towards her again he thought he was safe to continue his stare , thought she was still unaware of the nature of the examination . |
| 18 | She twirled slowly , feeling his eyes on her so that it was as though she was receiving an injection of adrenalin . |
| 19 | He had n't taken his eyes off her once . |
| 20 | To reach out and touch that enticing dimple in his cheek — and then perhaps say something to change the amusement in his eyes to something more heady ? |
| 21 | Vass cast a quick glance down at the file of drawings , then raised his eyes to hers again , their expression brittle . |
| 22 | He gets his tea from us too . " |
| 23 | In fact , the entire evening , spent flirting and dancing with her , had probably been no more than a cynical exercise in keeping his mind off someone else . |
| 24 | The only thing he recognised with any surety was intense desire , so intense that the vague awareness at the back of his mind of something wrong was stifled . |
| 25 | He paused , searching his mind for something else to say , something that might move the emphasis away from himself . |
| 26 | If Preston kept his eyes shut and his mind on something else , they occasionally achieved simultaneous orgasm , but it took energy , it took stamina . |
| 27 | It was as if he 'd made up his mind about something yet was not sure if it was the right thing to do . |
| 28 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 29 | Fleeting images of Ace masterfully entering her room , of him delightfully forcing his attentions on her slowly died as she finally made herself ready for bed . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's my girl , ’ he whispered before lowering his lips to hers once again . |