Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Tories — whatever the Whigs might charge — were not Jacobites , and could genuinely continue to remain Tories after the Glorious Revolution without wishing to see James II or his heirs restored to the throne . |
| 2 | His consultations were conducted fortissimo and his guffaws echoed through the hall which was his waiting room , lined with an interested audience , and out into the street : ‘ BEEN TO ITALY ? |
| 3 | Sentence : 180 hours community service , ordered to pay £83 compensation and £11 towards the costs of the prosecution , and ordered to be deprived of his rights in a car in which the appellant and his accomplices drove to the places where the thefts were committed . |
| 4 | He looked up , even paler if that were possible , and his fingers trembled on the ruler . |
| 5 | The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed . |
| 6 | His increasing literary output must also have been making him and his views known to the public . |
| 7 | On the contrary , he is carefully , deliberately , often methodically and painstakingly modelling his career and his activities according to the statements of the prophets . |
| 8 | As he says in De republica ( 3.5 ) : " Scipio and his friends added to the native usage of our ancestors the teaching of Socrates coming from abroad . " |
| 9 | Brian and his friends advance on the fallen woman . |
| 10 | That evening Pop and his students went to the hospital to help her , going in white cassocks , which was silly , because in the morning they returned covered in blood and dirt ! |
| 11 | With the promise of a situation in America , he returned to England , and his efforts contributed to the council of state 's decision to establish a council of trade , presided over by Sir Henry Vane the younger [ q.v . ] , |
| 12 | He hung from his arms and his body was quivering and his boots kicked at the snow . |
| 13 | From Rauching 's point of view , under Brunhild 's influence , Childebert was no longer a satisfactory master ; he was , therefore , to be removed and his sons elevated to the kingship in his place , in the hope that they would be more amenable . |
| 14 | Mr Beavis was a navvy , and his sons worked at the Bermondsey shunting yards of the railway . |
| 15 | Holly pushed his feet beneath the steel plate and the wind caught at his socks and trousers and drove a channelled wind against his legs and he cursed the awkwardness of his overcoat , and his feet kicked in the space like the feet of a hanging man . |
| 16 | This man and his parents originated from the south of England . |
| 17 | Apart from their long walks and interminable conversations and evening singsong , or their expeditions to ancient monuments , he and Gwili and his cousins assisted with the harvest , binding sheaves and even mowing bracken with a scythe . |
| 18 | His ashes were scattered on the course and his bonds given to the Club . |
| 19 | He seemed driven to defend and challenge his father 's achievement , but his enthusiasms were too boyish and his concerns overshadowed by the public shift in interest to the achievements of space scientists and astronauts . |
| 20 | He would n't take it to school for Barry and his mates to kick round the playground . |
| 21 | Adds the source : ‘ Slash and his mates laughed about the incident afterwards , but at the time it was terrifying . |
| 22 | James raised one of his eyebrows , puckering the skin of his forehead , and his lips twitched in the sort of smile that invites complicity . |
| 23 | The contrast with the united front Louis VI and his troops presented to the emperor Henry V in 1124 was marked . |
| 24 | Paternal authority was basic to the Zuwaya image , for loyalties depended on ancient domesticities : it was because your ancestors and his ancestors lived in the same household , under the same authority , that you owed another loyalty ( unless , as happened , you were in dispute with him , in which case those old fraternities marked the division between the two of you ) . |
| 25 | The King and his courtiers started at the sight of Kabir when he entered the hall . |
| 26 | Lying awake in the room next to hers , the episode with the boy had kept recurring to him , the sweat running on the boy 's face and his hands protruding from the sleeves of the dog's-tooth suit and his voice making its extraordinary statements . |
| 27 | The desk lamp was on , and his hands moving over the piles of money were bathed in yellow light . |
| 28 | He walked down the quay and turned into a narrow cobbled street , his head bent , and his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat . |
| 29 | Boys with generally excellent appetite , Oliver Twist and his companions suffered from the tortures of slow starvation , starvation for three months , at least they got so for ferocious , is that right ? |
| 30 | In the Old World , Teclis and his companions arrived at the court of Magnus the Pious , where Teclis 's wise advice and mighty sorcery soon made him an invaluable councillor . |