Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |
| 2 | His fingers jabbed and sketched as he explained the details . |
| 3 | He was conscious that his words creaked and grated like machinery in the wrong hands , and that his smiling glance upwards at the bunch of mistletoe was more of a leer , a leer that stayed , unnaturally fixed by confusion and rage , as he observed Clare 's hesitation . |
| 4 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 5 | Many times during the past evening he had returned to her , in ludicrous , colourful , brightly painted effigy , all his embarrassments clustered and clanging round him , all his mannerisms protruding , projected , enhanced : the sharp red nose , the usually broken bifocal spectacles , the striped woolly lunch-spattered waistcoats , the bald shining brown freckled Professor Branestawm brow , the pockets full of string , the green socks and brown sandals , the little pedantries , the favourite quotations , the antiquarian commentary , the hydrometer , the tufts of hair in his ears , the batty , potty , dotty , hurt , persistent grin . |
| 6 | His lips quirked but did n't quite achieve a grin . |
| 7 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |
| 8 | Colin Dexter explains how his appearances started and gives a few tips to potential extras . |
| 9 | Simultaneously his senses scrutinised that vault , every grim shadow of which was luminous to him , pierced by a light of purity which Rogal Dorn focused through the lens of his being … |
| 10 | His lashes quivered but did n't lift , and she saw that his lips had parted to reveal his teeth . |
| 11 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 12 | His hands stroked and tantalised , sought out the hidden , sensitive places , and aroused in her longings that she had never before experienced . |
| 13 | His strong arms rocked her , his hands stroked and soothed , till she felt comforted . |
| 14 | A sound of satisfaction came deep from his throat as his hands fondled and teased her breasts until her nipples stood up hard and proud against the softness of his palms . |
| 15 | He traversed the deserts of Persia and Baluchistan by camel , crossed central Africa at its widest point ( Across Wildest Africa , 1907 ) , and explored the Matto Grosso of Brazil ( Across Unknown South America , 1913 ) where his men mutinied and made two attempts on his life . |
| 16 | All around , his men stood or sat , looking at their rifles , and wondering what to do with them . |
| 17 | Resisting all temptations to pursue , Bruce and his men regrouped and rested , in a strong position and in good heart . |
| 18 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
| 19 | Horrorstruck for the instant , his cronies stood and squawled with outrage . |
| 20 | How each evening his thoughts festered and multiplied , decimating chasms of grief littered the shining path of sleep . |
| 21 | Trist and his colleagues suggested that close managerial supervision was unsuitable to mining work , which was carried out in dangerous conditions . |