Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Tom released his sister and coaxed her back inside .
2 They make up his hope and give him his strength .
3 An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working .
4 It was n't the uncertain nature of his livelihood that worried him , nor the police visits , although he had twice been invited to accompany the officers to the station .
5 [ In those days , if you were a witch you were safe as long as you kept away from the common people : once I saw a group of villagers spread-eagle a warlock , drive a stake through his heart and bury him beneath a crossroads gibbet . ]
6 Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up .
7 Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket .
8 She would bite off all his fingers and eat them , the way Smallfry said she would if ever he was caught stealing .
9 Kirov stooped over his crumpled form , retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket .
10 He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them .
11 She did n't like the way he just snapped his fingers and expected her to follow .
12 Siegfried carefully lifted the thing , shook the milk from his fingers and studied it with interest .
13 Holly took the bread and tugged it between his fingers and wolfed it to his mouth .
14 With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it .
15 He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her .
16 As he starts to crumple at my feet , I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright .
17 Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ .
18 He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor .
19 Travis stripped off his shirt and tossed it aside before unrolling the sleeping-bag and spreading it before the fire .
20 ‘ Well , they 'll have to , ’ said Nicholson pulling the necktie from his shirt and flinging it across the back of a chair .
21 He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink .
22 He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room .
23 A GLASGOW bus driver said yesterday that he might have been blinded during an attack by a drunken passenger who had broken into his cabin and assaulted him as he drove through the city centre one Saturday evening .
24 He can appear in so doing to have his opinions and to eat them too .
25 Every evening since Boxing Night she had come to his basement-room and allowed him to make love to her .
26 When Mr Major ran for party leader , the terrier-like figure of Mrs Shephard joined his campaign team early on , rounded up his support and delivered him a victory which he was swift to reward with the post of Minister of State in the Treasury .
27 Deane scored for Leeds , and , it could be argued he scored for Tottenham as well cos I think it was his foot that deflected it past Beaney .
28 Only once had the customer checked his money and informed her she had short-changed him .
29 He could not understand Modigliani 's disregard for both his health and his money and found it shocking .
30 ‘ He has had his time , made his money and to have him come back , well , people do n't know when to quit ’
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