Example sentences of "his [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Roylott was sitting on a chair , and his eyes were fixed on the air-vent . |
| 32 | She expected some fury but none was forthcoming and she glanced across at him to find his eyes were fixed on the mountains , his face sombre . |
| 33 | He was n't looking at me as he spoke , his eyes were fixed on the tatty door of the Mimosa . |
| 34 | His eyes were lost in the fire . |
| 35 | Though his eyes were narrowed against the sun , there was no mistaking the glitter in them , and Polly felt her skin tingle as she coloured . |
| 36 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 37 | Though his eyes were weakening by the moment , his gaze was still more acute than that of the blossoming ape . |
| 38 | His eyes were hidden behind the Raybans again now , but his sideways glance was quizzical . |
| 39 | His eyes were peeled for the main chance — but where was it ? |
| 40 | Behind his Oakley sunglasses his eyes were focused on the inner drama of his own existence . |
| 41 | His eyes were glued to the two men now sitting on his couch . |
| 42 | ‘ It was a fine fight , ’ Isay said , and his eyes were shining in the candlelight . |
| 43 | His gallops have always impressed me but after a couple of disappointing runs on the flat his attentions were turned to the all-weather surfaces . |
| 44 | His lips were swollen with the heat , ugly to look at ; the line of burning began on his jaw and his fair neck was wealed and raw . |
| 45 | The leader of the three was still shouting , but now his curses were directed at the woman who was confronting him . |
| 46 | His nails were bitten to the quicks . |
| 47 | His nails were bitten to the quick . |
| 48 | He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries ; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch ; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian 's usurpation ; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father 's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church . |
| 49 | A tradition passed down by early historians of the Dominican Order would make Alexander already a teacher of theology at Toulouse in 1215 , when his lectures were attended by the order 's founder , St Dominic . |
| 50 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |
| 51 | But she kept out of his way as his sister 's scraggy old cat did , streaking from its place by the fire the moment his feet were heard in the passage . |
| 52 | Killion and Richards , half undressed and filthy , were carrying Church ; his feet were dragging in the mud . |
| 53 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 54 | His celebrations were heightened by the news that his wife Carmen had given birth to their second son . |
| 55 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |
| 56 | He and his ideas were portrayed on the London stage by G. B. Shaw in his play , The Doctor 's Dilemma . |
| 57 | The grooves were U-bottomed with a radius of precisely 4.7 thousandths of an inch , and his reproducers were fitted with the very first diamond styli , of exactly this size for minimum wear and surface-noise . |
| 58 | ‘ Edward came to Corfe from a hunt , and while his attendants were seeing to the dogs she allured him to her with female blandishment and made him lean forward . ’ |
| 59 | King Coilus and his Britons were camped near the River Doon , not far from the shores of the little loch still called Loch Fergus . |
| 60 | In the latter days of the Roman Empire his powers were assumed by the Emperor , or Divine Guide of the World . |