Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom released his sister and coaxed her back inside . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 4 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 5 | He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them . |
| 6 | She did n't like the way he just snapped his fingers and expected her to follow . |
| 7 | Siegfried carefully lifted the thing , shook the milk from his fingers and studied it with interest . |
| 8 | Holly took the bread and tugged it between his fingers and wolfed it to his mouth . |
| 9 | With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it . |
| 10 | He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her . |
| 11 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 12 | He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor . |
| 13 | Travis stripped off his shirt and tossed it aside before unrolling the sleeping-bag and spreading it before the fire . |
| 14 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 15 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Every evening since Boxing Night she had come to his basement-room and allowed him to make love to her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Only once had the customer checked his money and informed her she had short-changed him . |
| 21 | He could not understand Modigliani 's disregard for both his health and his money and found it shocking . |
| 22 | Maggie put Patrick in his cradle and took her in her arms with motherly concern . |
| 23 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 24 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 25 | She made him take tap classes to loosen his ankles and gave him daily exercises to do under her assistant 's instruction . |
| 26 | Brutus was the only person in the play who was n't working for himself and although he was idealistic , he stuck to his plans and carried them through . |
| 27 | The man looked around and then , almost absent-mindedly , drew a shod throwing knife from his bandolier and hurled it . |
| 28 | He rested his spoon , patted his lips with his napkin and replaced it in his lap . |
| 29 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
| 30 | Roger was a keen walker , cyclist and backpacker before a sleepy driver knocked him off his bike and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life . |