Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] his [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 2 | There is no evidence that sceattas circulated widely in the Mercian hinterland and some reason to suggest in the light of a multiplicity of distinctive sceatta coinages in eastern and southern England that Aethelbald , who may have minted in Canterbury , failed to impose his authority over the issue of coins by others , ‘ a critical commentary ’ , perhaps ‘ on what Bede asserts , and on Aethelbald 's own claims ’ . |
| 3 | He bit his lip as he tried to thread his finger through the trigger guard . |
| 4 | Three times Balaam tried to drive his donkey along the desert road . |
| 5 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 6 | He tried to batter his rider against the wall , scrape him off against a fragment of the banisters , but still Fleury held on . |
| 7 | The shepherd grew pale and left us at once , and tried to rid his stomach of the dread stuff , and thereafter went home to his bed , expecting to die . |
| 8 | Dyson tried to fix his mind upon the tiny grains of chalk fleeing before the duster , filling the air , and settling upon shiny surfaces , totally and eternally discharged of theorem and crusade , or any lingering imprint of them . |
| 9 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 10 | For a moment he remained motionless , his eyes closed , then he lifted his joined hands in front of him in a graceful arc and bent to press his forehead against the floor in silent prayer . |
| 11 | He watched her graceful movements as she came towards him and tried to shut his mind to the sight of her bare limbs . |
| 12 | She opened her eyes , closed them again , looked up , tried to read his profile in the half-light . |
| 13 | I tried to keep his mind off the real tension before a major championship gets started . |
| 14 | In 1560 Henry Knyvet became a gentleman pensioner to Queen Elizabeth I. This connection , and the links he sustained with prominent men in Wiltshire , helped to ensure his position among the office-holding gentry , despite enmities fostered by land disputes persisting throughout the 1560s and 1570s . |
| 15 | Agitated , Joe tried to lift his head off the pillow . |
| 16 | Dressed in black and wearing a balaclava , he tried to force his way into the car , but the doors were locked . |
| 17 | His eyes searched Meredith 's anxiously , as he tried to get his tongue around the word she 'd taught him . |
| 18 | Rincewind tried to get his tongue round the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower 's own language . |
| 19 | Willy Brandt tried to present his policy as the natural continuation of Adenauer 's : he would reconcile Germany with the East in the same way as the old man had reconciled her with the West . |
| 20 | In 436 the Visigothic king Theoderid tried to expand his territory towards the Rhône valley , but was checked by Aëtius and his general Litorius . |
| 21 | On the small landing at the top of the main staircase he stopped to examine his reflection in the mirror . |
| 22 | He was ever so rude , I must say , and he tried to push his way into the flat . ’ |
| 23 | Rincewind groaned and tried to dig his way into the moss with his shoulderblades , then gasped as the pain hit him . |
| 24 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 25 | ‘ Because I absolutely refuse to have any more Norwegians , not after the last one tried to cut his throat in the drawing room . ’ |
| 26 | Pascoe expected to open his door to the present , and found , instead , a face from the past . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'd dropped his rifle in the Abbey . ’ |
| 28 | The Milton Humberside who 'd clawed his way to the middle of the heating and lighting installation business in the space of only ten years ? |
| 29 | Caught between tears and laughter , she rushed into his arms , only now realising how much she 'd missed his strength over the past few trying weeks . |
| 30 | He came threading his way between the tables , and halted beside them . |