Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was given a two-minute standing ovation after he delivered an uncompromising defence of his policies and declared : ‘ It is clear that the economy is already responding to the measures we have taken , and I have no doubt whatever that it will come right in good time . |
| 2 | As his experiences clearly influence his policies and following his recent interview in The Sun , can the Prime Minister now tell the House exactly when he was unemployed ? |
| 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 | When they work cannons can shatter the most determined enemy , pouring shot into his massed formations , levelling his cities and toppling huge monsters . |
| 5 | Like Tanya , he has no bad feelings towards his employers and says his redundancy was handled well . |
| 6 | By this time , however , the military crisis was over , and Henry abruptly demanded that Anselm should either comply with his wishes or leave the country . |
| 7 | Why could n't he simply accept that she was not about to defer to his wishes and go ? |
| 8 | It had puzzled me originally , but after a quick word with Glyn as you came into the offices I now see he wants to pressurise you into following his wishes and signing the house over . ’ |
| 9 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to examine his ballets and discover that he mostly set them in countries possessing easily recognised characteristics . |
| 10 | He was a strict disciplinarian whose word was law and , while players could argue with his views and put their own ideas to him freely , he would tolerate no arguing with umpires ; when Sobers once disputed an lbw decision he was reprimanded in front of the team . |
| 11 | Outside in the street , where she could raise her voice again , she almost shouted at him , telling him he was to stop behaving as if he had been right and she wrong — as if he believed she now shared his views and endorsed his ridiculous maunderings . |
| 12 | Baxter expressed his views as follows : ‘ Justification is received by those who obey the law of the new covenant . |
| 13 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 14 | One of them contained a silver sixpence which Frankie turned in his fingers but did not remove in case Sweetheart , in her present bad mood , took it away from him . |
| 15 | Maman always said she fell for Daddy when she saw how precise and gentle he was with his fingers while filling his pipe . |
| 16 | Then suddenly he clicked his fingers and spat the word out . |
| 17 | He was twiddling his fingers and looking pleased with himself . |
| 18 | He put his elbows on the table , interlacing his fingers and resting his chin on them , gazing at her seriously , and Merrill fought against the glow his words had lit inside her . |
| 19 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 20 | He swivelled and in one swift movement gripped her jaw between his fingers and lifted her mouth to his , raking his pirating lips over it again and again , a groan of deep desire wrenched from the depths of his being . |
| 21 | She would bite off all his fingers and eat them , the way Smallfry said she would if ever he was caught stealing . |
| 22 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 23 | It slips out of his fingers and turns over . |
| 24 | He looked down at his fingers and noted the chalk dust on their tips . |
| 25 | Jack plucked it from his fingers and grinned again . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ he answered , and he picked at one of the nails on his fingers and stared at the floorboards wishing he could disappear into them . |
| 27 | Absently he squeezed more insulating oil on to his fingers and passed the tube to Jezrael . |
| 28 | Kirov stooped over his crumpled form , retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket . |
| 29 | The stones struck his fingers and knuckles with stinging force , but the pain made sweeter the success that now followed , as the speed and motion of the multifarious shapes and colours began to describe images in the air above the Bowl . |
| 30 | He paused beneath the gas jet on the second landing , licked his fingers and tucked the ends of his fine dark hair behind his ears . |