Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He is an " Oxbridge don " who gives a " somewhat fastidious impression " , a point which is almost immediately confirmed by the dramatic action when the stage directions tell us " ANDERSON dabs at his mouth with his napkin and puts it down " ( p. 43 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I shall watch while she drinks her fill of his manhood and sucks him dry of his accursed wolfseed . |
| 4 | The cold wind ruffles his hair and makes him flinch for a moment , but it is refreshing after the stale warmth of the house , and he takes a deep breath or two on his way to the garage . |
| 5 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 6 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 7 | GUIL opens his mouth and closes it . |
| 8 | He who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock ’ ( Luke 6:48 ) . |
| 9 | The person who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug deep , and laid the foundation upon rock ; and when a flood arose , the stream broke against that house , and could not shake it , because it had been well built ’ ( Luke 6:48 RSV ) . |
| 10 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 11 | He grabs his thick , black briefcase , places it on his knees and opens it slowly , reverentially , as if revealing the contents of the Ark of the Covenant . |
| 12 | Much of his career in fact seems to have been devoted to Amazon-slaying , but it is significant that if heroes like Heracles represent the revolt of the son against the phallic mother then they also give evidence of their dependency on her when we find our hero forced to don women 's garb and do women 's work as proof of his love for the Lydian queen Omphale , while she wears his lion 's skin , brandishes his club and spanks him with her slipper if his handiwork does not please her . |
| 13 | He leans forward and picks up one of his legs and pulls it right out from his trousers . |
| 14 | Cranog Jones denies attempting to gas his ex-wife and claims she made the story up . |
| 15 | This neither precludes his fishing nor guarantees it . |
| 16 | Showing none of the great dignity of a Pharaoh , he runs to meet Jacob , embraces him , falls on his neck and kisses him . |
| 17 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 18 | ‘ They do like this , ’ and he pulls his son 's woollen hat over his eyes and frisks him . |
| 19 | He closes his eyes and opens them . |
| 20 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 21 | The architect explains his reasoning and says he thinks the tenant might enjoy the privacy . |
| 22 | But there is an interdependence between the various themes in his work that makes it difficult to deal with them in isolation . |
| 23 | He straightens up his mac and gives me a real serious look . |
| 24 | In the warm-up , Niki is three tenths of a second faster than Prost , but he does n't like his engine and gets it changed . |
| 25 | Does he have a bank for his business or does he just use cash ? ’ |
| 26 | The man glances at his picture and waves him through . |
| 27 | He pulls on his ponytail and settles it like a pet comfortably along the collar . |
| 28 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 29 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 30 | He jumps up and down with a vague look of aggression on his face , puts his hand on his hips and shows us his pot belly . |