Example sentences of "with his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a nasty knee injury against Shrewsbury in November 1984 , when he was carried from the field with his leg cut to the bone , George played again , with massive strapping and padding the following Saturday , and in all the ensuing games , in considerable pain and in spite of his injury . |
| 2 | Rufus was sitting on the blue-tiled rim of it with his feet dangling in the water . |
| 3 | He counted the seconds , one , two , three , four , and then it hit the tent with a fury that he had never known , he inside in his sleeping bag with his feet braced against the dome pole facing the onslaught . |
| 4 | You tossed your opponent for first strike , then the loser just stood still like a lemon with his conker dangling from the string . |
| 5 | With his influence spreading over the Pyrenees , — Bearn , Bigorre , Roussillon and Provence — Alfonso II was a formidable neighbour , a threat to the Dukes of Aquitaine as well as to the Kings of Navarre and Counts of Toulouse . |
| 6 | The struggle with his conscience comes to the reader at second-hand as the narrator , von Tarlenheim , watches him pacing in the garden and guesses at his thoughts . |
| 7 | Angel Four stood for a moment with his back pressed to the closed door of the Prophet 's private suite . |
| 8 | Paul sits with his back jammed against the side of the ambulance . |
| 9 | Often enough the farmer ended up an owner-tenant with his land mortgaged to the money lender . |
| 10 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 11 | Meredith that on the grass with his chin tilted to the sky as if sunbathing . |
| 12 | The early morning mist was lifting above the Great Stukeley lanes to reveal a glorious day as Mr Major arrived with his wife to vote at the village hall . |
| 13 | Arthur Evans was still on the sofa , only now he was sitting limp with his head resting against the arm . |
| 14 | JOHN MAJOR is acting like an ostrich with his head stuck in the sand . |
| 15 | After a while his initial panic died down and he settled down into a steadier gallop , still with his head turned to the outside . |
| 16 | With his popularity falling in the opinion polls , and the prospect of much of his planned legislative programme becoming paralysed by the Diet 's preoccupation with the two scandals , Miyazawa even hinted that he was considering calling an early general election . |
| 17 | He stood with his shoulder pressed against the wall , his gaze fixed on the fanlight . |
| 18 | When Joe told his story of making love in a cold doorway with his backside exposed to the street , Lou told him he was a fool . |
| 19 | Now Mrs Thatcher has gone and her successor , John Major , has had to launch the biggest gamble of his political career by entering an election race with his party trailing in the polls . |
| 20 | A five-pound note that had got muddled up with his handkerchief fluttered to the floor , and he looked at it accusingly , though without making a move . |
| 21 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 22 | Angalo lay with his face pressed into the sandy soil . |
| 23 | Bald and pink , with his face peering above the white folds of the napkin stuck into his collar , Haverford looked like a particularly contented baby at feeding-time . |
| 24 | He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes . |
| 25 | But if her words had any effect on him , he had n't revealed it ; instead he had continued to avoid her glance , riding at her side with his features frozen in the same expressionless mask . |
| 26 | With his attention diverted to the new studio , the honour of the Royal Command Performance and the crisis with his South African production , it is not surprising that Tiller was unaware that he was losing control of his Manchester school . |
| 27 | Dorcas lowered himself gingerly on to the brink and sat with his legs dangling over the drop . |
| 28 | and there was him with his finger hanging over the side . |
| 29 | Show respect , ’ said Garvey to Lucie , who was leaning against the corner strut of the stage with his eyes fixed on the far horizon . |
| 30 | He was high in Upper Teesdale , walking with his eyes pinned to the ground . |