Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedict beat his fist on the bed and glared at her . |
| 2 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 3 | The great pundit of economics , John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) ( he happened personally to sympathise with labour ) , modified his position on the question in 1869 , after which the ‘ wage-fund ’ theory no longer enjoyed canonical authority . |
| 4 | Whibley 's effectiveness can be measured by the fact that he retained his position on the Palace flank while assisting us from Southern League also-rans to 3rd Division champions , and to a dignified place in Division Two . |
| 5 | The demotion of Aldana ( who retained his position on the politburo of the ruling Communist Party — PCC ) , was later officially confirmed and put down to " serious personal errors and deficiencies in the execution of his responsibilities " . |
| 6 | He also retained his place on the council of the king . |
| 7 | Jorge Risquet Valdés-Saldaña , a seasoned diplomat hitherto seen as a rising star in the party , was removed from the seven-strong PCC secretariat as part of the changes but retained his seat on the politburo which advised the secretariat . |
| 8 | Simms maintained his silence on the reason for his withdrawal , and in 1842 refused to give an interview to R. R. Madden [ q.v. ] , then writing his history of the United Irishmen . |
| 9 | Say there was a big cheer when he crashed his car on the strike , crashed his car on the strike , did you hear about that ? |
| 10 | Say there was a big cheer when he crashed his car on the strike , crashed his car on the strike , did you hear about that ? |
| 11 | Feeling like a traitor , Charlie scribbled his signature on the bottom of the second page before handing in his report to the orderly officer . |
| 12 | In their campaign speeches , the Republican candidates refrained from attacking one another and Reagan concentrated his fire on the incumbent Democratic governor , Pat Brown . |
| 13 | In his wisdom , Lord Mountbatten saw what was happening and , after his retirement in 1965 , concentrated his attention on the young Prince and became a vital figure in his life . |
| 14 | Convinced that the ploy was about to be put into operation , Manville concentrated his attention on the hood of the Dodge , just above the offside wheel . |
| 15 | He concentrated his attention on the trolley . |
| 16 | Richard moved his tongue on the roundness and the ragged break and the folds of foreskin wrinkled and pulled tight . |
| 17 | He cracked his head on the trapdoor beneath the golden pavilion and fell to the floor like a lopped tree . |
| 18 | Grasping the side of the cage with his talons he fixed his stare on the night sky above where moonlit clouds moved slowly across stars . |
| 19 | Gabriel fixed his gaze on the cloud pageants overhead or on Adam or on Lucifer or on God , rather than be distracted by the restless crowd . |
| 20 | Beecham stopped the orchestra with a tap of his baton , fixed his eye on the red-faced tympany man and asked ‘ What is your name ’ ? in icy tones . |
| 21 | The conman , driving a white car with POLICE on its sides , stopped his victim on the A14 , near Barton Seagrave , Northants . |
| 22 | A fourth taxi driver told the police he escaped a murder attempt in north Belfast a short time later , claiming he spotted a black Mini car carrying two men who pulled on masks and produced a gun when they approached his car on the Antrim road . |
| 23 | And hummed his music on the march to death . |
| 24 | The prosecution had alleged that Mr Hatton used his influence on the two councillors — who chaired influential committees — to swing deals for his close friend Monk , 45 , without proper competition . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 26 | This was partly the result of sheer indecision : during the Abdication imbroglio of 1936 , for example , he admitted to an acquaintance that " he changed his mind on the subject several times a day " . |
| 27 | Though there appears to be no evidence to support Husameddin " s assertion that Molla Fenari actually went in company with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey , the fact that the former dedicated his commentary on the to the latter and praises him fulsomely in the preface suggests a close connection between the two and is a further indication that it was during Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey 's rule ( 1402–19 , 1421–3 ) that Molla Fenari 's sojourn in Karaman occurred . |
| 28 | Charlie scrawled his signature on the spot above where the sergeant 's finger rested . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said old Eddy Moulton , ‘ when Stanley Furle came out of the Ring at the end of the evening , he fell down the stairs and blacked his eye on the knob of his cane ! |
| 30 | Kydd , 50 , of Brownhill Road , Dundee , denied that on 1 March , on the northmost entrance road leading to Timex Electronics Corporation in Harrison Road , he conducted himself in a disorderly manner , parked his car on the road , locked the doors and windows and refused to move it when asked by police . |