Example sentences of "[be] [verb] his [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . |
| 2 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 3 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 4 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 5 | Most of the plates bear one or two scratched numbers of the reverse : their meaning has not yet been identified but a research student from the Rijksmuseum has made a detailed survey of them and will be publishing his findings in the journal Print Quarterly at a future date . |
| 6 | Welsh will be publishing his results in the 1 June issue of The Astrophysical Journal . |
| 7 | The rock-hard defender had expected to be kicking his heels at the start of next season after picking up a lengthy suspension a month ago . |
| 8 | Paul follows John , who seems to be dragging his legs along the floor . |
| 9 | Gosforth still have to play their Northumberland Cup semi-final against Tynedale on April 14 , and if they win Johnson will be rubbing his hands at the prospect of a big score in the final against Novos or Seghill . |
| 10 | In La Route des Flandres , the fluctuations between first and third person mean that it is not possible to contend that the novel 's discourse is organized entirely around the consciousness of the central character Georges , who otherwise seems to be re-creating his experiences in the course of a night in bed with the widow of his commanding officer , some time after the wartime conflict . |
| 11 | After a long-winded description of the historical background to the war , and survey of the situation in the east — hinting that the war would continue to drag on over the coming winter — Hitler , in the part of the speech which attracted most attention , demanded full powers to act immediately and ruthlessly ‘ independent of person and status ’ where anyone was found not to be fulfilling his duties to the ‘ people 's community ’ and failing in the war effort and promised an ‘ inexorable challenge to every form of corruption and omission of duty ’ . |
| 12 | John Lewis , the district manager in charge of Lowermoor , had been voicing his concerns about the safety of the treatment works for some years before the accident . |
| 13 | He is dabbing his lips with the napkin . |
| 14 | An enterprising sheep farmer is opening his gates to the public during the lambing season . |
| 15 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 16 | The more feasible alternative is to dismember his plays between the history of his own day and the ideologies of ours . |
| 17 | Hopkins is worried that Strieber is turning his experiences into the source for a new religion . |
| 18 | Nolan 's method is to put his hands on the bare flesh at the point of the complaint for a minute or two . |
| 19 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 20 | The last thing he 'll do is tell his hosts about the headache and stomach cramps in the morning . |
| 21 | Seconds later the two rafts following behind hit the same spot and the Minister is taking his chances in the river along with everyone else . |
| 22 | Like so many others in the art world , he is pinning his hopes on the proposed National Lottery , and his organisation has already submitted a list of historic monuments and sites which need £500 million before the year 2000 . |
| 23 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 24 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 25 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 26 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 27 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 28 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 29 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 30 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |