Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul looked down at his own oiled body , then spat on to his palm for added lubrication . |
| 2 | He will be on the wing for Oxford this afternoon and will be cheered on by his father Malcolm , the last South African to win an Olympic medal before isolation ( the 400m bronze in Rome in 1960 ) . |
| 3 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 4 | He had metaphorically shaken a large fist , impotently , at some looming energy-field , and got on with his work , his work . |
| 5 | Everything then was twice as frightening , so I returned to the gentle patting and quiet treatment with which I had tried to persevere before , and slowly Jester forgot his ‘ fear ’ and got on with his work . |
| 6 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 7 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 8 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 9 | A presence lived on in his absence . |
| 10 | And Marie , oblivious of her cold , wet jacket , clung on to his arm as they walked along . |
| 11 | Carey was often discouraged and frustrated but stubbornly pressed on with his translation work , realising its vital importance in the foundation of any missionary venture . |
| 12 | But Sir Bernard was outraged ; and since , throughout this account , he goes on about his rectitude and his impartiality as a civil servant , it is worth quoting him on what happened to journalists who fell out with him . |
| 13 | ‘ He goes on about his daughter rather a lot . ’ |
| 14 | He goes on about his experience of life and how he knows more about it . |
| 15 | The managing director makes very sure that he knows all that goes on in his firm . |
| 16 | Yet with this one major issue resolved , Rick is now questioning whether what goes on in his classroom has really changed so much . |
| 17 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 18 | He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work . |
| 19 | Changez stood there looking out of the window and scratching his arse , completely ignoring his father-in-law , who had no choice but to carry on with his explanation . |
| 20 | However , the end of the poker ripped the knuckles of the hand he had thrust up to shield himself and blood was spattered on to his face . |
| 21 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
| 22 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 23 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 24 | Schellenberg , who felt that he was only hanging on to his sanity by his fingernails , said , ‘ But , Reichsführer , what if Devlin does n't wish to be persuaded ? ’ |
| 25 | He swung himself astride the dragon awkwardly , because Rincewind was hanging on to his belt . |
| 26 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Jim Courier was last night hanging on to his world No 1 ranking and survival in the $2.5m IBM ATP World Championships by his finger tips . |
| 28 | She pictured the man stamping down through his pub , irate and duty-bound . |
| 29 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 30 | Gazing down at his wife as she glared up at him , tossing back her blonde hair in an imperious gesture , Ross was suddenly reminded of a proud , possessive lioness guarding her cubs . |