Example sentences of "on his [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Captain is having to rely on his memory to negotiate the channel . |
| 2 | But Holligan wasted no time in the seventh and an even better left-hook stretched Ekubia on his back to earn the Liverpool lad a Lonsdale Belt . |
| 3 | From that year onwards , he became progressively more absent from the conduct of daily political affairs , relying as much on the inertia of the system he had created as on his ministers to keep the country running , while he devoted increasing amounts of time to hunting , shooting and fishing . |
| 4 | At the centre of political power , Johnson depended on his ability to retain the confidence of Congress over Vietnam ; and here also the overwhelming support , revealed in 1964 over the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution , began to break up . |
| 5 | The achievement of all three aims would depend , to a large extent , on his ability to maintain the reputation for winning battles which had secured his appointment as military and political supremo . |
| 6 | The one hope is that Sir Patrick Mayhew will finally deliver on his promise to give the talks process ‘ direction and focus ’ , rather than act as an interested observer . |
| 7 | Lewis earned a shot at Bowe 's title after destroying ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock in October and the WBC acted honourably when stripping the champion of his title for reneging on his promise to fight the number one contender . |
| 8 | In 1968 Nixon won the Presidential election , on his promise to end the war , but even he wanted victory for America and would not withdraw until this had been achieved . |
| 9 | Although he sailed over with King George , as some twenty-five years previously he had accompanied the Prince of Orange on his voyage to claim the crown , he received only an annuity of £400 from the new monarch , was soon deep in debt again , and ended his days in a debtor 's prison . |
| 10 | She wriggled her backside on his lap to make the path between her thighs more easily accessible . |
| 11 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 12 | He was killed by an axe blow to the base of his skull as he walked through woods to the railway station in the settlement of Semkhoz on his way to conduct the early morning service at his church in the nearby village of Novaya Derevnya . |
| 13 | ‘ Marler was on his way to see the chief on Dartmoor . |
| 14 | One day , on his way to do the ploughing , he met a man who 'd just come back from the south and had passed several flocks of sheep on the other side of Chhakuri Lekh . |
| 15 | The husband , Dennis , shuddering in the cold on his way to work , on his way to watch the night , forgets . |
| 16 | A senior French detective is on his way to question the man , a spokesman said . ’ |
| 17 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 18 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 19 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 20 | Geoff is on his way to marry the rich Dorothy , to pay off his debts … . |
| 21 | While having his horse shod , Nisbet told John Morton that , with George Woodburn , he was on his way to assist the Covenanters , and persuaded the blacksmith to join them . |
| 22 | Ariadne said that she would help Theseus on his journey to find the Minotaur . |
| 23 | A disabled man who is unable to speak typed out a message on his computer to call the fire brigade when he woke to find a candle had caused a small fire in his bedroom . |
| 24 | Leaning hard on his net to counteract the force of the current , he will scrutinise the oncoming water intensely . |
| 25 | Mr Ardzinov is still alive only because he was sleeping on his balcony to escape the heat . |
| 26 | The committee said it had no reason to doubt Mr Gummer was out of pocket and it accepted there was no intent on his part to conceal the work . |
| 27 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 28 | He squatted beside him and demonstrated how to prop his elbows on his knees to steady the rifle . |
| 29 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 30 | Above all , the empire was the only place where he could make good immediately on his claim to represent the real France . |