Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently his escape from the rout of Winchester had n't been so easy . |
| 2 | But aspects of his work , especially his insistence on the importance of ideology , have been a positive influence on modern Marxism and on some Marxist studies of crime and punishment . |
| 3 | Having been aware of only detrimental media coverage of Prince Charles , I was heartened to read your profile in the January issue , which concentrated on his varied contribution to British life , especially his involvement with the conservation of the countryside . |
| 4 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 5 | Havelock Wilson was inclined to play down his involvement in the affair . |
| 6 | His trousers were ripped and the blood seeped down his leg from the gash inches above his knee . |
| 7 | In dismay he put aside his tools and set down his reaction to the disaster on paper . |
| 8 | For example , an employer who envisages having to slim down his work-force in the future , perhaps after introducing new technology , may offer those who are prepared to resign rather than to wait to volunteer for redundancy a financial inducement , perhaps exceeding state redundancy pay . |
| 9 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 10 | He put down his coffee-cup in the tray with a sigh . |
| 11 | His Adam 's apple slid up and down his throat like the lift in the Red Road Flats ought a , but do n't . |
| 12 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
| 13 | He felt a trickle of blood down his arm from the scratch on his shoulder , and pulled the torn sleeve more tightly round it , hoping Ruth would n't notice the damage and make a fuss . |
| 14 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 15 | ‘ No , ’ said Philip , crouching , only his head in the hide . |
| 16 | For , by 1841 , he had worked out not only his theory of the origin of species , natural selection , but also , it seems , his theory of generation ( or reproduction , including heredity , variation and so on ) , pangenesis . |
| 17 | Her hand strokes along his thigh from the knee . |
| 18 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 19 | McLaren , desperate to complete the film , had no option but to agree , thereby effectively signing away his control of the Sex Pistols ' future . |
| 20 | Thus his stocking of the ship 's larder with delicacies was , to his mind , a far cry from self-indulgence . |
| 21 | Whitlock took a sip of beer then glanced over his shoulder at the entrance . |
| 22 | He glanced over his shoulder at the crowd of people . |
| 23 | George came last , carrying an attaché case of papers and looking over his shoulder at the train as if wondering if he 'd forgotten anything . |
| 24 | ‘ The first time your children tell you they 've heard the story , remember , I warned you , ’ He drained his mug , dropping it over his shoulder into the water slushing around in the galley : ‘ Nothing like a hurricane for washing dishes . ’ |
| 25 | Yanto saw Billy 's mouth drop open as he looked over his shoulder towards the door . |
| 26 | The karateka then glances over his shoulder in the direction the kick is going to travel — the look should be only a very quick glance , not a prolonged stare . |
| 27 | Mr Ridley appeared against the surreal backdrop of a vast headless , legless belly floating over his shoulder from the bench behind . |
| 28 | ‘ I have made it my business to go after lost Leonardos now , ’ says Dr Pedretti , who worked closely with Kenneth Clark and took over his mantle as the world 's leading Leonardo expert . |
| 29 | He is a tall , thin , stooped man , with silvery grey hair , deeply receding at the temples , curling over his collar at the back . |
| 30 | Newcastle took the lead after a quarter of an hour , but a shot from Northampton 's Bradshaw was too powerful for the keeper to hold and it went over his head into the net . |