Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] his [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 2 | The round-headed boy who had been polishing the Daimler 's windows ambled up and competently placed his hands on the rein either side of the black mare 's mouth . |
| 3 | His geopolitical ( some would say his neo-imperialist ) strategy similarly demanded the continuance of a strong British Commonwealth , especially given his doubts concerning the future of democracy as relatively backward peoples gained their independence . |
| 4 | gingerly crosses his legs in the beam — a double-cross performed on screen . |
| 5 | I mean York City Council will obviously er Mr Curtis will obviously give his views on the situation , erm the particular issue that seems to have changed the mind of York City Council is the reference in P P G thirteen , transport to sizes of new settlement not being erm er desirable in in in transport terms , small scale resettlements . |
| 6 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 7 | All Mr Clinton 's talents will be required not merely to stroke his allies in the Capitol 's anterooms , but to keep the country focused on what he is aiming at . |
| 8 | Sixteen thousand people watched an astonishing scene as Johnson was knocked to the canvas in the twenty-sixth round and made no attempt to regain his feet , merely shielding his eyes from the sun . |
| 9 | Though I had the distinct impression that Edward would have preferred me to leave too , he said nothing , merely drummed his fingers on the desk top , then snapped , ‘ Well ? ’ into the receiver . |
| 10 | Van Rensburg perhaps fancies his chances in the red and white . |
| 11 | Mackay died , personally leading his troops into the thickest of the fight at the Battle of Steenkirk in July 1692 . |
| 12 | Placing his hand on the top of Joe 's thigh , he gently brushed his knuckles against the man 's groin . |
| 13 | Pembroke , who finished lame when last in the 2,000 Guineas , should better advertise his abilities in the Jersey Stakes . |
| 14 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 15 | In the Illustrated London News a correspondent declared that Joffre had ‘ been seen … literally rubbing his hands over the attack ’ . |
| 16 | While Dreadlocks held him hard another man — gold incisors glinting — stepped in and pulled open Estabrook 's coat , then reached in to empty his pockets with the speed of an illusionist . |
| 17 | He would stoop slightly and listen attentively while you spoke to him , as if it were important that he heard every word , gently sliding his spectacles up the bridge of his nose as he did so . |
| 18 | Jacklin instanced the case of Jim Colbert , a good friend and a solid journeyman professional on the regular US Tour in his heyday , who has now made $1.8 million on the US Seniors Tour and pays his caddie $140,000 a year just to drive his clubs around the course in a golf kart . |
| 19 | Watkins LJ gave the principal judgment in the Divisional Court and upheld the application on the ground that the Minister had not given his reasons for the decision not to make a reference and that this was ‘ irrational ’ . |
| 20 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 21 | Although God specifically warned Job 's comforters not to postulate his sins as the cause of his sufferings , the Middle Ages preferred , like most ages , to ignore what God said . |
| 22 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 23 | Erm I 'm not too sure whether Rozario may not have just caught his studs in the ground and tweaked a knee something like that . |
| 24 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 25 | It is therefore slightly ironic that it should have been this same Meistersinger which now finally stirred his feelings to the point where any " healthy " critical stance became impossible . |
| 26 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |
| 27 | He was at great pains to ensure that the public did not associate his performers with the bad name that dancers usually had . |
| 28 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 29 | Wolff will not sever his links with the MRC until spring 1984 . |
| 30 | Because he 's already got his hands on the money ? ’ |