Example sentences of "his [noun] and [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page

No	Sentence
1	( He leaps up again , stamps his foot and shouts into the wing . )
2	Vic compares the kitchen clock with his watch and rises from the table .
3	Andy sits in an ancient bulging armchair , its fake brown leather rubbed through to the fabric net underneath in places and burnished to a deep black shine on the arms ; he nurses his whisky and looks into the fire most of the time .
4	He gets out of his car and walks down the street .
5	And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market .
6	Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses .
7	Every night Tip O'Neill drops by his bed and prays to the same God that you do and he prays for the strength that 's necessary the next day to defeat everything that you believe in .
8	I say , ‘ A Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta … ’ and with that he drops his book and stomps off the tee .
9	Keith holds his head in his hands and looks at the floor .
10	ROS cups his hands and shouts into the opposite one . )
11	As a result the boy represses his sexual desires towards his mother and identifies with the sexual role of the male portrayed by his father .
12	Normally to be seen driving around in a funereal Daimler — dwarfing the island 's other cars ( including the BMW of Premier Sir John Swan ) — the Governor also dons his uniform and takes to the streets in a horse-drawn landau several times a year .

  Next page