Example sentences of "to his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most serious opposition to his work came from the wealthy and respectable Sir Ralph Clare . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ Melissa murmured aloud as she listened to his footsteps pattering through the hall , followed by the slam of the outer door , ‘ there goes a man with a guilty secret . |
| 3 | Maybe he was putting the receiver down and picking up his pen to write a quick note instead , handing it to his secretary to pop in the post , saying ‘ Mind you do n't forget that one , it 's rather urgent . ’ |
| 4 | The only witness to the robbery had met his demise possibly due to the blows to his head sustained during the robbery . |
| 5 | A. H. Halsey , David Donnison , John Vaizey , Noel Annan , and Michael Young were among those whom he invited to his home to argue about the strategies and , but only after they had worked , to enjoy his hospitality : ‘ People become much too talkative if you give them something to drink . ’ |
| 6 | Not long afterwards she left the cabin , and Edward returned to his bunk to wait for the ship to sail , to take him back to Sweden . |
| 7 | Joyce had remained consistent to his promise given at the time of the publication of National Socialism Now two years earlier . |
| 8 | Did 1973 respond to his plans to leapfrog into the elite who would be actually paid to drive ? |
| 9 | By the Eighties Holroyd tells us , there were no less than 50 Study Guides and Notes to his plays issued for the benefit of students . |
| 10 | A poor substitute for personal hope and endeavour , he had always thought , listening to his friends besotted by the achievements of little Willy , but perhaps it was a human necessity no one could quite escape from . |
| 11 | Michael Heseltine , the Board of Trade President , joyfully grasped Mr Major 's arm and a beaming Chancellor Norman Lamont leaped to his feet to join in the celebration . |
| 12 | And Duke William , they tell me , is being kept too busy hanging on to his dukedom to worry about the crown he 's been promised . ’ |
| 13 | It is from this forbidding , inhuman Paris , projected into the not-too-distant future , that Giorgio returns to his childhood haunts in the Abruzzi . |
| 14 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 15 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 16 | Suppose an intrepid astronaut on the surface of the collapsing star , collapsing inward with it , sent a signal every second , according to his watch , to his spaceship orbiting about the star . |
| 17 | The grounds on which the father relied were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices heard evidence from which they could properly conclude that his costs had been incurred as a result of the actions and omissions of the local authority ; ( 2 ) as there was no machinery for taxation of costs the justices were correct to assess the amount of the costs ; ( 3 ) the father was entitled to his costs incurred in the Family Proceedings court to the extent allowable under the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 and the justices were correct to hold that the actions of the local authority justified making the costs order which included the costs of the hearing on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 18 | He is still taking medication for injuries to his hand caused by the extreme cold blowing in through a hole in the fuselage during a ten-hour flight . |
| 19 | Chuck was the first to recover , and when he pulled himself to his knees to peer across the plain , the closeness of the leading herd bull surprised him . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll never get that , ’ said Gazzer flatly , heaving himself to his knees to look over the edge . |
| 21 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 22 | With his young assistant and a much-loved black cat we sat on the floor of his studio , sipped mint tea and listened to his words relating to the ancient science . |
| 23 | She twisted her head around , up to his face , followed the line of his arm down again , to his hand , to his finger pressed against the newspaper . |
| 24 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 25 | DAVID QUANTICK gets down to his underwear to talk with the girl Bowie forgot . |
| 26 | He was hurt by his failure to win the leadership in 1911 and by the hostility to his family manifested during the contest . |
| 27 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 28 | He must take a Waaagh Test just like any other Goblin shaman , but he automatically adds +1 to his dice roll on the ‘ Eadbangerz Chart . |
| 29 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 30 | Double gates to his right led to the garage , a modern construction complete with first-floor flat served by an external staircase and styled to resemble the cottage itself , which lay straight ahead of him , evidently well cared-for in the absence of its owner . |