Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] his [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 2 | A hotelier may ‘ so far as he is free to ’ exclude or restrict his liability under the OLA 1957 by means of a notice ( or a clause in the contract of booking vis-a-vis guests ) . |
| 3 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 4 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 5 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 6 | The court may order the husband to convey or transfer his interest in the home to the wife absolutely in the following manner : It is ordered that the Respondent shall transfer to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order all his estate and interest in the property 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre [ subject to the existing Mortgage to the Blackacre Building Society , the Petitioner indemnifying the Respondent against all claims in respect thereof ] . |
| 7 | Chapter 6 deals with those cases where the husband is ordered to convey or transfer his interest in the matrimonial home upon certain terms or settle the same upon certain trusts . |
| 8 | If the court has ordered the husband ( or the husband has agreed ) to convey or transfer his interest in the former matrimonial home to the wife , there is no reason why he should agree , at the request of the wife , to convey or transfer it to herself and her new husband . |
| 9 | He declined to explain why or to give his name on the telephone . |
| 10 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 11 | 11 Do n't allow yourself to be dominated by the student who always knows , or thinks he knows , the answer or who is always asking you questions or giving his opinion on the state of the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I just hope we can catch up with him before he gets knocked down by a car or finds his way off the roads into open countryside or woodland where it will be harder to find him . ’ |
| 13 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 14 | As Richard Neustadt puts it , ‘ When one man shares authority with another , but does not gain or lose his job on the other 's whim , his willingness to act upon the urging of the other turns on whether he conceives the action right for him . ’ |
| 15 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 16 | Similarly ( and this is a point we develop in later chapters ) ‘ there is little opportunity for the individual to obtain a conception of the whole or to survey his place in the total scheme ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not that he had abandoned or qualified his commitment to the principle of non-violence ’ . |
| 18 | These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning . |
| 19 | Tony did no more than repeat his run of the morning . |
| 20 | Dr Scott , from long experience , did no more than wrinkle his nose at the odour of decay , and spent twenty minutes there , mostly occupied with a careful consideration of the head . |
| 21 | He had no wish to look out over the Shatt al-Arab , the narrow glistening strip that divided his country from the Islamic Republic of Iran . |
| 22 | The questions being argued in the courtroom were these : could the defendant claim that driving his car at the gang was self-defence , given that he had already escaped ? |
| 23 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 24 | Better than enduring his fumbling during the night in the vain hope of satisfaction when the need was strong in her . |
| 25 | The commission for a new tomb for the philosopher , to replace the simple stone that marks his grave on the Catalan coast , had been given to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1989 by the Arbeitskreis Selbständiger Kulturinstitut and was to be financed to the tune of DM1 million by the German Foreign Ministry . |
| 26 | It was Karajan 's concern with ‘ music , absolute music ’ — ‘ drama-made-music ’ rather than ‘ music-drama ’ , to use Professor Kivy 's useful distinction — that linked his work in the opera-house with his work in the concert-hall and , indeed , with his whole philosophical position . |
| 27 | The letter in his hand aroused in him a sense of urgency that offset his fear of the narrow enclosed footpath known locally as Dead Man 's Alley . |
| 28 | After the mighty publicity campaign that followed his victory at the Tchaikovsky International Piano and Violin Contest in Moscow in 1958 when he was 24 , Mr Cliburn toured for 20 years . |
| 29 | Old Trung a toughened three-year contract coolie compelled to stay on in the plantation beyond the term because he had no money or clothes to leave , knotted the cord Dong had fetched around the neck of the cadaver with a deftness that betrayed his familiarity with the task . |
| 30 | In a hoarse whisper that betrayed his obsession with the idea , he told her , ‘ If it was me , I 'd beggar myself to acquire it . ’ |