Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God sent the Spirit of Jesus to his followers in order to equip them to carry on the mission of his Son in the world . |
| 2 | He had learned one vital piece of information where Riddle went on the night of his disappearance — and he had no wish to persecute these youngsters , who seemed to have acted with good intentions . |
| 3 | The accompanying letter said how much they enjoyed the tour of Springfields and said Eric could pass on the sticker to his son . |
| 4 | He was manipulating a kind of toggle or switch on the head of his cane . |
| 5 | Also one of the new pope 's first actions , taken on the day after his consecration , was to extract an oath of obedience from the prefect of Rome . |
| 6 | As early as 1879 , the union secretary was reporting in consternation : " so highly are they prized that one master who employs 20 girls vauntingly said that with his girls and the … foreman , he could carry on the work of his establishment , dispensing with journeymen ! " |
| 7 | The architect was Andrea Spezza ; the two men who carried on the work after his death , Vicenzo Boccaccio and Nicolo Sebregondi , followed his designs . |
| 8 | With a piercing stab of remorse at yet another misconstruction , Merrill recalled the painting she had thought belonged to Luke , which hung on the wall outside his room . |
| 9 | One of the keys to his very particular philosophy hangs on the wall of his office at Scottish Life . |
| 10 | This meeting with Temple was so important to him that the photograph of the group hung on the wall of his room when he died . |
| 11 | Equally , he had a peasant cross , made of embroidered material , hanging on the wall of his bedroom there ; he had bought that in Bulawayo when there with a visiting company in 1953 . |
| 12 | Rather : thin muslin sheets of brown and red were being pulled past his eyes , patterned like the blankets woven by the women , patterned like the rug that hung on the wall in his daughter 's room . |
| 13 | Hassan Hamdan , aged seven , was shot in the head by a sniper when he switched on the light at his bedroom in Mossaitbeh , a poor residential district controlled by Amal . |
| 14 | They had three sons and six daughters ; the eldest son , John Wesley Hackworth ( 1820–1891 ) carried on the business after his father 's death , 7 July 1850 , at his home in Shildon , county Durham . |
| 15 | An employee might believe that his promotion prospects hung on the extent of his activity in pushing for trade union recognition or safety provision . |
| 16 | Each morning he first switched on the power for his terminal . |
| 17 | It dragged down the timbre of his voice to a gruff murmur . |
| 18 | The Doctor looked up and put on his spectacles which immediately slid down the perspiration on his nose . |
| 19 | I look down the rope into his face . |
| 20 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 21 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 22 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 23 | The muscles of his arms and shoulders were tight and sinewy , flexing like knotted cords beneath a sheen of perspiration , and in the flickering light of the lamps she could see a livid white hunting or battle scar running down the base of his throat and across his ribs . |
| 24 | Turning down the collar of his raincoat and arranging it to expose his clerical collar — for he was not ashamed of his calling — Mark entered the shop . |
| 25 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |
| 26 | Quick as a thief , Garvey raised it to his collar and was about to drop it down the inside of his shirt when the Mason took a hold of his collar from behind and twisted it . |
| 27 | The blood ran down the inside of his arm , where the skin was pale , and collected in the palm of his hand as he held the wound out for Dad to look at . |
| 28 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 29 | He finally flew home to South Africa and put down the money on his cluster house . |
| 30 | Gabriel blushed violently and felt the sweat spring through his palms and trickle down the hilt of his tin sword . |