Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad had fallen and cracked his head on the fireplace . |
| 2 | The French General , knowing he had earned his pat on the head from the Emperor , shouted derision at their retreat . |
| 3 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 4 | He had succeeded his father on the board of the Great Western Railway , although not in the chairmanship . |
| 5 | It was n't until after she 'd left that she 'd noticed his name on the football reports . |
| 6 | Edwards 's trailblazing feat opened the way to others : by the time he 'd strapped his board on the roof-rack of his car , he claimed , three other men were already out . |
| 7 | Speculation that he had turned his back on the fast world of Wall Street finance was fuelled by reports that he has spent his time in prison studying the Jewish religion . |
| 8 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 9 | She was pointing at Sheridan Lorrimore , who had turned his back on the scene . |
| 10 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 11 | Rovers ' contract rebel , who is the subject of a reported £70,000 bid from Hull , has temporarily turned his back on the professional game to return to his amateur roots . |
| 12 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 13 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |
| 14 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
| 15 | Your correspondent has re-read his report on the 1968 Glasgow Actuarial Students ’ supper and considers the article probably conveyed as much on his changing view of the world as it did on the supper itself . |
| 16 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 17 | According to tradition it was brought by the apostle Mark who is said to have written his gospel on the banks of the Nile . |
| 18 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 19 | Ever since Victor had saved his life on the deadly ravine-wire crossing they had become firm friends . |
| 20 | Isambard had accepted his bond on the instant without a word of triumph or mockery , and left him alone to exult and grieve over his father 's belated legacy . |
| 21 | Brum based Brian Travers , producer and director of musical films for many years , and well known saxophonist in the internationally renowned band , UB40 , has already made his mark on the music industry . |
| 22 | Ironically , all five Treviso tries ( Rovigo scored two ) were scored by forwards , an obvious hint that the master of backplay , Pierre Villepreux , has not yet made his mark on the team 's playing pattern . |
| 23 | I am sure O'Grady would have made his mark on the Centre Court of Wimbledon . |
| 24 | He had made his escape on the day he later confronted her father in the yard . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've not yet seen his name on the lists . |
| 26 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 27 | Marion had seen his pennon on the galley , and was waiting for him as he walked tall and dignified behind the little girl . |
| 28 | In November 1 172 he had met his father-in-law on the Norman border and it was believed that Louis VII had urged him to demand what was rightfully his . |
| 29 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 30 | He 'd equipped his facility on the orbital Tech-Green research base — annexed to Sky City One — with an incuvat ; the means to commit virtual suicide in a complete reality . |