Example sentences of "his [noun] [coord] [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 | [ 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 . ] |
| 5 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 6 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 7 | She would bite off all his fingers and eat them , the way Smallfry said she would if ever he was caught stealing . |
| 8 | Kirov stooped over his crumpled form , retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket . |
| 9 | He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them . |
| 10 | She did n't like the way he just snapped his fingers and expected her to follow . |
| 11 | Siegfried carefully lifted the thing , shook the milk from his fingers and studied it with interest . |
| 12 | Holly took the bread and tugged it between his fingers and wolfed it to his mouth . |
| 13 | With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it . |
| 14 | He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her . |
| 15 | As he starts to crumple at my feet , I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright . |
| 16 | Tom put the bone in his shirt and carried it back to camp ’ . |
| 17 | He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor . |
| 18 | Travis stripped off his shirt and tossed it aside before unrolling the sleeping-bag and spreading it before the fire . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , they 'll have to , ’ said Nicholson pulling the necktie from his shirt and flinging it across the back of a chair . |
| 20 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 21 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He can appear in so doing to have his opinions and to eat them too . |
| 24 | Every evening since Boxing Night she had come to his basement-room and allowed him to make love to her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Only once had the customer checked his money and informed her she had short-changed him . |
| 27 | He could not understand Modigliani 's disregard for both his health and his money and found it shocking . |
| 28 | ‘ He has had his time , made his money and to have him come back , well , people do n't know when to quit ’ |
| 29 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 30 | Maggie put Patrick in his cradle and took her in her arms with motherly concern . |