Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it only in science where problems arise ; Dewey 's assumptions in politics , philosophy , economics , and religion , are typically western/racist/capitalist/Christian ; and his division of the arts into " Fine " and " Applied " has caused many a pottery teacher to gnash his teeth . |
| 2 | He also made clear his misgivings at the attempts to rush the decision . |
| 3 | HOW apt that party-changing Dr David Owen is to do his bit for the Tories now — having been sent to Serbia by the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Devos might have added that Charpentier frequently reinforces his wishes at the ends of sections with verbal indications such as ‘ Passez sans interruption a la suite ’ ( ‘ Continue without interruption to the next movement ’ ) , or ‘ Suivez au Choeur sans interruption ’ ( ‘ Continue with the chorus without interruption ’ ) . |
| 5 | It appeared that the judge had tendered his resignation on the grounds of ill health in a letter sent to the Lord Chancellor the day before his controversial comments . |
| 6 | Gates refused to tender his resignation on the grounds that his 8,300 members were depending on him to provide strong leadership in a difficult situation ( The Guardian , 4 April 1991 ) . |
| 7 | He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections . |
| 8 | It helps explain his fixation on the details of other people 's erotic lives , the keyhole stuff that filled his files , the anger — envy , perhaps — which made him project homosexuality onto all manner of public figures . |
| 9 | Gazzer , a strange , urgent little figure , hurrying among them with a bloodstained rag round his right hand , dressed in filthy black trousers and a black anorak , made one or two people shield their eyes against the sun and , with lazy curiosity , prop themselves up on one elbow to follow his progress through the gardens . |
| 10 | There was a healthy demand for prints and postcards , which added to his income from the arrangements he had with photographers and agencies . |
| 11 | Mowbray had met such men before ; some of his commanders in the knights hospitaller had the same gift as Athelstan of sensing every thought . |
| 12 | But tonight there had been no time to get the cheese or sardines or cold ham that made his evening meal ; Sean never liked to cook in his bedsit above the premises of Hogan 's lest the smell of food linger and be deemed offensive . |
| 13 | He must go now , to the apartment block , and make his calls on the tenants . |
| 14 | His views on the rights of hereditary monarchy and episcopacy were those of Charles Leslie [ q.v. ] , whom he admired , but Earbery had none of his wit or power of reasoning : his numerous works are largely made up of quantities of historical narrative , related with a strong ideological bias , often laced with personal abuse . |
| 15 | He seemed to take for granted that she would share his views on the derelicts . |
| 16 | ‘ At the very least there is perceived to be an apparent disinclination to contact and involve Church spokesmen in matters like education or to approach the Moderator for his views on the circumstances of the Presbyterian community which is the second largest denomination in Northern Ireland , ’ one leading Churchman said . |
| 17 | John Coles , chairman of the British Egg Industry Council , gives his views on the challenges facing the industry in the 1990s |
| 18 | During the winter of 1917–18 , in his course on the principles underlying the treatment of injuries to muscles , bones , and joints , ( Sir ) Arthur Keith [ q.v. ] gave a lecture on Thomas at the Royal College of Surgeons , and in 1920 the Liverpool Medical Institution founded a Hugh Owen Thomas memorial lecture . |
| 19 | I heard his footfalls upon the stairs . |
| 20 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 21 | He glanced at the clock and nodded his approval without breaking the rhythm created by his fingers on the strings . |
| 22 | His fingers on the strings hovered like butterflies over a flowerbed on a day of hot summer . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to go anywhere , ’ she murmured , sucking the ends of his fingers under the covers . |
| 24 | He crossed to the open storage cabinets and ran his fingers along the rows of simularity crystals ; her files , her notes , her diary . |
| 25 | He faked much of his struggle with the gangsters , and failed in his wartime duty to fight imminent subversion ; after the war , his genius was to stir up subversion he could quash . |
| 26 | In the 1630s the Chidleys were active in separatist circles and assisted John Lilburne [ q.v. ] in his struggle against the bishops . |
| 27 | Its first political use had been by extreme conservatives against Bismarck ; during his struggle against the socialists antisemitism spread to all parties on the Right . |
| 28 | Bar-Giora is thought to have used his desert headquarters not only in his struggle against the Romans but also while he was in conflict with rival Jewish rebel movements , including the Zealots . |
| 29 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 30 | The men greeting Johnson included the Laird , his doctor brother , and four other Macleod relatives , including one , known as Sandie , who had been exiled for his part with the Jacobites in 1745 . |