Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 2 | He keeps his liquor just on the other side of the room , but catch him actually dishing it out himself . |
| 3 | Ellwood put his mouth close to the old man 's ear and whispered , showing his teeth . |
| 4 | As he trotted his horse forward over the intervening space Lieutenant Stapleton noticed two giant white faces smiling at him with understanding and compassion . |
| 5 | He urged his horse forward to the very edge of the moat , for he had not so loud a voice as his nephew . |
| 6 | Presumably it was brought to London when John Gamgee moved his college there as the short-lived Albert Veterinary College . |
| 7 | McCourt said Royal Gait was cruising turning into the home straight , but began to lose his action just before the final flight . |
| 8 | In fact , it did much to disguise Sadat 's unpopularity at home and his break away from the other countries of the Middle East . |
| 9 | He turned his mind away from the private conviction that little Mickey Annan was somewhere lying dead ; deep beneath bracken on the moors ; under an old sack in some outhouse ; it did n't matter where . |
| 10 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 11 | He dragged his gaze away from the giant phallic symbol . |
| 12 | Frankie blinked in the bright light , then turned his gaze reluctantly to the arched alcove on his left . |
| 13 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 14 | The major exhibition of his work currently at the National Portrait Gallery should help to change that . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't go , ’ he said again , getting a London number and ringing his stockbroker late in the English night . |
| 16 | PAUL INCE is starting to reap the rewards for getting his act together in the past 12 months . |
| 17 | COLIN Montgomerie was yesterday fined £1,000 and told to get his act together by the European Tour chief executive , Ken Schofield , who was upset by his fellow-Scot 's criticism of the King 's Course at Agadir in last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 18 | On his return home in the late 1950s he did a stint as a tea planter in Assam , before becoming an executive with a private firm in Bombay . |
| 19 | The driver of the long-distance lorry would tighten his hands on the wheel and urge his machine faster past the bleak terrain that marks fear and anxiety across the breadth of the Motherland . |
| 20 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't actually know , ’ Teufel replied , stubbing his toecap absently on the concrete platform . |
| 22 | Manville hardly felt the entry of the .38 slug as it chewed into his body just below the bottom rib , burning upwards at an angle through his lung . |
| 23 | No one had ever asked his opinion before for the specific purpose of putting it into print in a newspaper article that might be read by millions of people . |
| 24 | His commercial activities centred on the Levant trade , in which he invested heavily until his retirement sometime in the late 1670s . |
| 25 | His head was round , his eyes large and lively , his nose somewhat above the common size , his expression bright and cheerful . |
| 26 | Eventually Humbert was forced to surrender , handing his sword gravely to the English commander and being treated with all the honours of war and politeness of diplomacy . |
| 27 | The 24-year-old Birchfield Harrier failed to win selection for Auckland and has turned his attention instead to the European Indoor Championships to be held in Glasgow in early March . |
| 28 | He turned his attention mainly to the northern forests , however ; he examined the local juries as to the way in which they had been kept , and held Forest Eyres in all the northern Forest counties . |
| 29 | A benign observer of the event , sitting in among the press and nursing his hangover , would have cast his eye unenthusiastically over the massed ranks of what Sir Peregrine Worsthorne had once described in Mrs Thatcher 's golden days as ‘ the most successful political party in the world ’ : ‘ Essex Man ’ and ‘ Wessex Woman ’ , stockjobbers , garage-owners and a scattering of country women in lavender tweeds . |
| 30 | ‘ That swimming pool will run more efficiently under the Liberal Democrats than under anyone else , ’ responded Mr Ashdown , his eye clearly on the national implications of the ‘ swimming pool ’ issue . |