Example sentences of "his [noun sg] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead his lips compressed , as if he were physically stemming a tide of words , and he slung his briefcase on to the bare chart table . |
| 2 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 3 | Rain ran down the harsh planes of his face and dripped from his chin on to the slick oilskin . |
| 4 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 5 | To hell with her , he thought and kept his coat on in the warm book-lined room . |
| 6 | The union leader told Sunday Life that Mr Bradley had passed his letter on to the appropriate department of the Northern Ireland Office which drafts electoral law here . |
| 7 | In the seconds at the bottom when everything had steadied , when there was n't a breath of air , just a strange unreal calm , he rolled over the edge and clawed his way on to the thin rubber bottom of the raft . |