Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 2 | Brutus Leitdorf , the Count of Averland , ordered the retreat over the great bridge and rallied his troops in the western half of the city . |
| 3 | And for their inspirational captain and star batsman to see himself so early as a lonely figure of torment , when England will need his strengths in the weeks to come , does not bode well . |
| 4 | In a speech on Sept. 27 , he had appeared to encourage his supporters in the teeming shanty town areas of Port-au-Prince to rectify gross social inequalities by rising up and killing their opponents with " necklaces " of flaming tyres , known locally as " Pères Lebruns " after the country 's main tyre importing firm . |
| 5 | Todd from Neighbours also highlights another problem often seen ; he would have difficulty depositing his cans in the ‘ Save-A-Can ’ skip as it is clearly full to the top . |
| 6 | The exercise went far to establish his credentials in the right quarters . |
| 7 | ALLAN THOMSON has been appointed captain of the Scottish Boys team and will commence his duties in the quadrangular match with France , Italy and Sweden in Sardinia from 19-21 March . |
| 8 | The president is taking the key decision as to whether to increase his forces in the Gulf and to switch from a defensive to an offensive posture . |
| 9 | Fleming reported his experiments in the Journal of Horticulture , and published Spring and Winter Flower Gardening in 1864 ( 2nd edn. , 1870 ) . |
| 10 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 11 | When Shearman was appointed National Education Officer for the WEA , questions were raised by the LEA over the continued appointment of a full-time resident tutor in the county and agreement was reached only on the understanding that the new resident tutor would concentrate his activities in the undeveloped rural areas in the south of the county . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm not too sure whether Rozario may not have just caught his studs in the ground and tweaked a knee something like that . |
| 13 | He reviewed his notes in the light of what Maeve had said , and began to follow it through . |
| 14 | Richardson prowls around the room , stabbing his fingers in the air . |
| 15 | The old master of the House of Commons , despite his quiet style , never found his feet in the House of Lords . |
| 16 | 2 The defender places his arms in the correct position to execute a forearm block . |
| 17 | Carl André places his bricks in the Tate Gallery ( 1976 ) and you realize abruptly that you are a passionate aesthete , welcoming André 's challenge to preconceptions about art , space , detail . |
| 18 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 19 | He slung his jacket over his shoulder and , anointing his fingertips in the breast pocket of his shirt , ascended the two shallow steps leading into the main part of the house . |
| 20 | Swiftly , she swallowed her ire and , taking a steadying breath , ‘ Well , ’ she began , ‘ so far as I know — and I could be wrong — I believe it has something to do with years back when a tradesman was dismissed , he would pack his tools in the sack he carried them in , and walk off the job . ’ |
| 21 | with honours in chemistry in 1869 , then pursued his studies in the natural sciences at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , obtaining his D.Sc . |
| 22 | He was also responsible for instructing his pupils in the History of the English Language and in philology ( the growth , history and structure of words ) . |
| 23 | Since he had no arabition to sell his films in the US , there was no reason why he should be more adventurous . |
| 24 | All Mr Clinton 's talents will be required not merely to stroke his allies in the Capitol 's anterooms , but to keep the country focused on what he is aiming at . |
| 25 | Ceauşescu elected to exhibit his trophies in the National History Museum in Bucharest , in salons of ‘ homage ’ where his subjects could see the admiration Western democrats felt for their leader . |
| 26 | A month earlier the government was startled to learn that the Soviet defence minister , Marshal Dmitri Yazov , had turned up to inspect his troops in the east without telling the Germans . |
| 27 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ It frees his followers in the House . |
| 29 | Reportedly stung by media criticism that he had appointed a mediocre Cabinet , Franco personally contacted PMDB leader Orestes Quércia , the former governor of the state of Sao Paulo who was known to be wary of involvement in the interim government in case it affected his chances in the 1994 presidential elections . |
| 30 | What marked Suger out from other pseudo-Dionysians was firstly , that he translated his abstractions into concepts directly relevant to French politics in his own time , and secondly that he proclaimed his views in the influential Life of Louis VI , written in the early years of Louis VII 's reign . |