Example sentences of "his [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Heath in 1970 was also a radical leader and many of his policies were enacted in the face of bitter opposition in and out of Parliament . |
| 2 | His meetings were arranged by the World Council of Churches which is one of the few non-government organisations represented in the country . |
| 3 | His views were dismissed by the government , which portrayed the riots as merely criminal acts . |
| 4 | With one exception , says the Crown Prince , his views were supported by the Operations Staff of the Fifth Army ; ‘ that exception was my Chief-of-Staff ’ That same day , Knobelsdorf replaced the pessimistic von Mudra by General von Lochow , the commander of the Prussian III Corps , who in his views on warfare was roughly equivalent to the more ardent disciples of the ‘ attaque à outrance ’ in France . |
| 5 | His views were echoed by the sub-committee which twice rejected the couple 's application . |
| 6 | His views were criticised by the House of Lords , for example in Pett No. 2 ( H.L. , 1970 ) and even he held in Maynard v. Osmond ( C.A. , 1977 ) that legal representation was not an absolute requirement where a police officer who was facing disciplinary charges was denied legal representation under the Police Disciplinary Regulations . |
| 7 | He claimed that as only thirty architects had submitted Gothic designs in the competition and there were 200 other designs , his views were endorsed by the majority of architects . |
| 8 | Then his hand was slipping beneath the soft silk fabric , making her flesh jump excitedly as he touched her , and his fingers were reaching for the strap of her bra , dropping it loosely over her shoulder and peeling the cup of her bra away . |
| 9 | Now his fingers were pressuring over the skin inside her wrist again and she wanted to snatch her hand away , but , as if guessing her intention , he tightened his grip , pulling her a centimetre — no , more — towards him . |
| 10 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 11 | All his suits were hung in the wardrobes in covers . |
| 12 | His hats were inscribed inside the brim ‘ Not Yours ’ . |
| 13 | His talents were wasted on the tabloid for which he worked . |
| 14 | His teeth were clenched against the cold , and his sleeves were pulled down over his knuckles . |
| 15 | ( His meanings were tinged with the sharp edges of anxieties that she could n't comprehend , and joy laved them all away . ) |
| 16 | Yet his proposals were denounced in the provinces , delayed in the Duma and rejected outright in the State Council . |
| 17 | He pressed for further constitutional advance , and his proposals were published by the British Government as a White paper in June 1953 . |
| 18 | Stok crossed his arms across his face and began to pull his shirt off , and his words were lost beneath the white cotton . |
| 19 | His words were lost in the frightened screams of the women , the crying of terrified children , the loud cursing and swearing — and sometimes praying — of the men . |
| 20 | ’ But then he opened the door , and his words were lost in the wind . |
| 21 | His words were lost in the violent pounding from the east . |
| 22 | His words were lost in the sudden explosion which took the front off Police Headquarters . |
| 23 | Ranulf , nudging Maltote , leered at the pretty ladies in their fillets and low-waisted dresses ; sometimes his words were drowned by the clamour of the crowd and the mid-day peal of the bells of London tolling for prayers from their great stone-washed , stately towers . |
| 24 | His knees his knees were dissolving in the ebb of the Channel |
| 25 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 26 | The impact of the landing had pushed one man forward under his seatbelt and his legs were trapped beneath the seat in front . |
| 27 | At the same Salon in the following year , after he had come to Paris , his entries were included in the Cubist room , and by 1913 his work was beginning to attract special attention . |
| 28 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 29 | ’ His eyes were fixed on the hint of plumpness under the girl 's armpit . |
| 30 | His eyes were fixed on the place where the path disappeared into the fog . |