Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 2 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 3 | The creditor or his agent has to sign outside the box . |
| 4 | He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds , during which his bulk seems to swell in the room . |
| 5 | The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air . |
| 6 | He glanced away for a moment , his gaze seeming to drift beyond the window to the loch and the granite peak of Ben Lomond beyond . |
| 7 | Apparently he was quite charming , but as the basis of his charm seemed to rest upon the un-startling stratagem of addressing every female he encountered by the fullest possible version of her name ( so that every Julie became a Juliana , every Dot extended to a Dorothea , all Marys became Mariana , Sues Susanna , etc . |
| 8 | The High Priest and his council had to reckon with the Tobiads . |
| 9 | His poetry began to appear in the Marlburian in 1912 , influenced by John Masefield [ q.v. ] and by the Wiltshire downs , with their irresistible evocation of the past . |
| 10 | Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat . |
| 11 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 12 | No doubt the bank left it to Mr. O'Brien to procure his wife to agree to enter into the security transaction . |
| 13 | He had simply used the framework of a company which he and his wife controlled to make over the necessary benefit to his children . |
| 14 | The creditor having instructed the court , the bailiff 's officer asking on his behalf moves to distrain against the debtor 's goods . |
| 15 | ‘ You think I do n't ? ’ he asked , and his voice seemed to shake with the effort to control it . |
| 16 | He identified so closely with this work — for what seem to me all the wrong reasons — that his interpretation tended to tremble on the edge of bathos . |
| 17 | The tenant having died , his daughter sought to rely on the provisions which would give her the right to succeed to the statutory tenancy . |
| 18 | But at this high point in his career his health began to fail under the heavy pressures , and in 1917 he suffered a major breakdown . |
| 19 | In the meantime , an owner who wishes to move and sell his property has to wrestle with the problem of blight . |
| 20 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 21 | He had remained with the company until his eyesight began to fail in the early 1930s ; he had died during the war . |
| 22 | Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime . |
| 23 | Piper leaned backwards , staggering , and watched the room revolve until his brain seemed to hum with the motion . |
| 24 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 25 | After the death of his father , Tennyson and his family continued to live at the rectory for a further six years . |
| 26 | Everton offered better personal terms but hit man Harford settled on Chelsea because he and his family want to stay in the South . |
| 27 | He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor . |