Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched Mr Evans turn in his chair and look up at his sister and felt her chest tighten . |
| 2 | Tom released his sister and coaxed her back inside . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The biggish ones were kept for the doctors at Dunstan Hill Hospital , just outside Newcastle , where they monitored his progress and adjusted his drugs . |
| 5 | She lay on his heart and did nothing . |
| 6 | He was a strict disciplinarian whose word was law and , while players could argue with his views and put their own ideas to him freely , he would tolerate no arguing with umpires ; when Sobers once disputed an lbw decision he was reprimanded in front of the team . |
| 7 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 8 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 9 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 10 | He swivelled and in one swift movement gripped her jaw between his fingers and lifted her mouth to his , raking his pirating lips over it again and again , a groan of deep desire wrenched from the depths of his being . |
| 11 | He shrugged , then linked his fingers and made his knuckles crack . |
| 12 | He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them . |
| 13 | She did n't like the way he just snapped his fingers and expected her to follow . |
| 14 | Siegfried carefully lifted the thing , shook the milk from his fingers and studied it with interest . |
| 15 | He felt the glass being tweaked from his fingers and opened his eyes to see her disappearing into the kitchen . |
| 16 | Alec , still tearful , examined his fingers and shook his head slowly . |
| 17 | Holly took the bread and tugged it between his fingers and wolfed it to his mouth . |
| 18 | With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it . |
| 19 | He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her . |
| 20 | His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years . |
| 21 | Realizing they were both going through the roof with nerves , Luke put down his notes and tipped his battered Panama over his snub nose . |
| 22 | He dragged at his shirt and ruffled his hair and stamped his feet an swung his arms about . |
| 23 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 24 | He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor . |
| 25 | Travis stripped off his shirt and tossed it aside before unrolling the sleeping-bag and spreading it before the fire . |
| 26 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 27 | He tugged at the zip on the back of her dress while she unbuttoned his shirt and removed his tie . |
| 28 | Masha unbuttoned his shirt and slid her hand down . |
| 29 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
| 30 | 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 . |