Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an engineer 's interest in how all these tiny ‘ bones ’ had fitted together , Miller had gone far beyond his contemporaries dealing with less complex fossils , who drew in with dotted lines parts missing in their specimen . |
| 2 | I shall consider his attempts to deal with these in turn . |
| 3 | The recurrent topic is Hobbes , with whom he was in frequent contact by letter — Hobbes 's manuscripts , their prospects of publication , the emergence of Leviathan , and his attempts to argue with Hobbes as he wrote ; reported , as best he could , to Sheldon . |
| 4 | Jake sat back in his chair , his fingers toying with the glass paperweight , yet looking totally composed again , back to his old self . |
| 5 | His fingers tightened with a menacing precision that kept her absolutely motionless . |
| 6 | Robyn watched as his hands moulded and caressed each silken mound , heard the gasp of delight escape from her own lips as his fingers played with the darkened peaks . |
| 7 | His fingers dispensed with the buttons on the front of her dress and his hands , warm and firm and so , so clever , slipped inside and teased at the lace of her bra . |
| 8 | His fingers linked with hers , drawing them to his lips where he turned them to kiss her open palm . |
| 9 | Coleridge 's development after 1798 was roughly parallel to that of Wordsworth , though he was always more concerned to make his opinions square with Christianity . |
| 10 | Survival dictates that the bureaucrat keeps his subordinates happy with greater opportunities for promotion and other benefits from an enlarged budget , and his superiors satisfied with his performance as measured by the forceful promotion of incremental growth in the bureau 's spending plans . |
| 11 | " When this final disagreement occurred " wrote Snowden , it was evident that the Prime Minister had anticipated such a development and had made his plans to deal with it " . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what are his plans to assist with the repair and protection of the electricity supply in the event of severe weather conditions . |
| 13 | But there was an additional element ; Constantine the Great had embraced the Christian faith and his sons followed with blind intolerance . |
| 14 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 15 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 16 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 17 | ‘ A man dies , his debts die with him . ’ |
| 18 | The show , in the Gemeentemuseum , The Hague ( 1 February -30 June 1994 ) , will consist of fifty paintings and 150 drawings by this austere theoretician of the Modern movement , best known for his canvases painted with horizontal and vertical lines in primary colours . |
| 19 | His colleagues at the NSC , John Lang continued , had given him the nickname ‘ Knight Rider ’ , after the television hero ( ’ one man and his machine , dedicated to the righting of wrongs ’ ) , for his disappearances to confer with the contras . |
| 20 | Miller 's imagery is heavy-handed in its efforts to startle , along the lines of ‘ he had his words copulate with one another to bring forth empires , scarabs , holy water , the lice of dreams and the dream of wounds ’ . |
| 21 | Franco continued to jabber away , his words interspersed with little outbursts of laughter . |
| 22 | His words combined with Davide 's torpor to close around him like an iron lung , though the sweat brought on by his pace was now increased by terror . |
| 23 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 24 | His heart leaped and his knees trembled with relief when he heard the unmistakable sound of her footsteps rounding the corner at the other side of the cinema building . |
| 25 | But several of his supporters agreed with Mr John Patten , the former Home Affairs Minister , who spoke of the ‘ wicked , old-fashioned racism ’ that had led to the overturning of the 4,896 Tory majority and brought shame to the spa town . |
| 26 | Going to his cabin one night the guilty engineer found his bulkheads papered with blue toilet paper and Bluecol stickers everywhere . |
| 27 | He had begun to have wet dreams ; early in the morning , he would find his thighs soaked with semen beneath his nightshirt . |
| 28 | A keen follower of fashions , he had been a notable Ted in his day , but had now abandoned the narrow trousers and sharp haircut in favour of golden locks curling on his shoulders worn with a loose striped robe bought in Egypt . |
| 29 | On a prie-dieu , at the foot of the coffin , knelt the dead man 's brother , his shaven head bowed , his shoulders shaking with silent sobs . |
| 30 | The world exploded into popping blue circles as his irises clamped shut and his retinas screamed with the shock , like somebody who 'd dived into Caribbean waters and found them as cold as Arctic slush . |