Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 2 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 3 | Her nipples had become rigid , almost unbearably sensitised , as his fingers gently squeezed and played with her firm round breasts . |
| 4 | His guardian now insisted that the family move to a healthier climate This well-intentioned advice proved disastrous , for within the space of one year in Italy Smith had suffered from frostbite , smallpox and malaria . |
| 5 | You could not always tell , of course , and today he looked smart enough in a navy-blue suit and highly polished black shoes , his hair well flattened and combed down . |
| 6 | His chest still rising and falling spasmodically , the youth came across the pavement and climbed into the car . |
| 7 | But his mouth suddenly tightened and he turned back to the sterilizer in dignified silence . |
| 8 | His research further showed that the participative , supportive supervisor who was transferred to a low-production unit was able to raise the performance at a fast rate . |
| 9 | His knees frequently dislocate and he has a painful hiatus hernia which makes him scream . |
| 10 | His knees almost buckled but he fought himself upright and managed to get Trent into focus . |
| 11 | His department later confirmed that there had been no competitive tendering and that no companies apart from EDS , nor the department itself , had been invited to bid . |
| 12 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 13 | His supporters subsequently asserted that the Browns had passed Common 's patterns to McCormick , but there is no evidence that the American , working in an isolated part of Virginia from 1831 , ever encountered them before his reaper improvements of ten years later . |
| 14 | There is an ambivalence in Genet which his critic always misread and his defenders often overlook . |
| 15 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |
| 16 | His doubts only increased when he performed another job , midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play . |
| 17 | The hairs on the back of his neck suddenly prickled and stood on end . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ Luke went on , his eyes half closed as he gently swilled his brandy round his glass , ‘ Stella 's my stepmother . |
| 19 | As he fed , and she sat looking down at his absorbed face and regularly pumping jaws , his eyes tight closed and his clenched fist resting lightly on her skin , she slid into the blissfully familiar peace of it , even enjoying the faint sense of shame that came with the pleasure . |
| 20 | You would n't , would you ? ’ he asked , his eyes so pleading that Leith , aware that he was asking her to ring Rosemary and then pass the phone over to him , had no thought to refuse . |
| 21 | His eyes suddenly narrowed as he looked at her , and there was a silence charged with meaning between the two of them . |
| 22 | He screwed his eyes tightly shut and tried not to imagine what they were doing together in the room with the shuttered window . |
| 23 | With a choked little cry he jumped backwards , turned and plunged into the unseen , gripping the banister and screwing his eyes tightly closed as he ran . |
| 24 | He fell in love with the man , the political doubts about sexuality and disability came later as he learnt more and his mind slowly opened and then contracted with knowledge that proved to be no salvation . |
| 25 | His work usually starts when the team return from a task . |
| 26 | But his parents soon realised that Ashley would need more specialized help , so they turned to the Peto Institute in Hungary , which has pioneered the treatment of children like Ashley with what 's known as conductive education . |
| 27 | He let his long arm hang at his side , his fist slowly clenching and unclenching independent of his smile . |
| 28 | Oliver , observing the scene with the same keen interest as had she , munched his way through a Dickensian gingerbread cake , his emotions harder to determine than those of his companion . |
| 29 | His comrades immediately claimed that he had been the victim of Leftist aggression and demanded retribution . |
| 30 | Leaving her abruptly , he moved to the desk and stood staring down at the papers lying on it , his attitude so tense that Lucy felt compelled to go to his side . |