Example sentences of "on his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes after the exercises , Sister Cooney stood and talked , while Frank lay back in bed , his breathing like the wind through dry leaves , and a rusty flush on his cheekbones . |
| 2 | Stephen 's dark blue eyes were very bright and there was a flush on his cheekbones . |
| 3 | ‘ Her face , ’ said Balvinder , drumming his fingers on his cheekbones . |
| 4 | Sweat stands out on his cheekbones . |
| 5 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 6 | But the emperor remained impassive on his dais and the Resident Superior merely raised an amused eyebrow in the direction of one of his colleagues . |
| 7 | husbands think their fault is they 've no money , when in all accounts he 's probably had more to spend on his luxuries than she 's had on food . |
| 8 | Davis did n't think much of the ‘ kitchen sink ’ films , and asserted that a realistic minimum budget for a first feature was in the order of £250,000 as a way to justify his blocking their exhibition on his company 's circuit . |
| 9 | Uncle Bill had run a car for her on his company while he was alive but of course that had all stopped when he died . |
| 10 | Mr Stuart Greenwood , finance director of the kitchen furniture maker Spring Ram , said that Labour 's proposed increase of capital allowances from 25 per cent to 40 per cent would make no impact on his company 's investment plans . |
| 11 | On another TV programme there was a most extraordinary discussion in which a Labour industrial expert , Lord McCarthy , sought to contradict a Lancashire industrialist as to the effect of a minimum wage on his company . |
| 12 | Disappointed at the value put on his company by the stock market , which compared it with other electronics groups , he decided to spin-off Vodafone and Chubb . |
| 13 | He calls his production company Enigma because of a remark on his school report when he was 16 . |
| 14 | Mike MacFarlane , the international sprinter from Haringey , looked back on his school years in Hackney : ‘ In those days , living was more important than education . ’ |
| 15 | The benefit of this one as well is if , let's just say we , that you knocked him right down on his money force as cheap a buy as possible then ask if you can do a hundred percent . |
| 16 | With this one , I suppose I was thinking of Dave Gilmour sitting on his veranda ! |
| 17 | There was no pity for his evident loneliness and many stories circulating about his arrogance and the superior manner in which he parked the cheaply-framed photograph of his parents on his night table . |
| 18 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
| 19 | He 's probably only in the mood cos he 's probably upsetting them on his night out cos they go out in the evenings . |
| 20 | I can imagine him being one of these , these , these er husbands who just want , who want , who will want to go out with the lads on his night out and will get , you know , he 's a , he 's ste I can imagine him being one of these stereotypical husbands who goes out , gets pissed , comes back , who wants the dinner on the table and |
| 21 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 22 | Over in Hanover Square , as Wenner began to pull the rug on his London venture the ‘ hell of it ’ was getting the upper hand . |
| 23 | Of course I 've seen it , I 'm on his mailing list . |
| 24 | They had ceased to bring him food at the end of the first day , taken away his carefully hoarded drop of water at the end of the second , and the third refusal had cost him his coarse blankets and the thin straw palliasse on his plank bed . |
| 25 | He lay on his bunk with his eyes open and staring at the rafter ceiling for all the hours that were common for the men of Hut 2 . |
| 26 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 27 | Near to Holly , Adimov was stretched on his bunk stomach down . |
| 28 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 29 | On his back , on his bunk , he doubted if he would ever trust another man again . |
| 30 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |