Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he hesitated the door opened and Gilbert Forbes came out in a rush , his make-up smudged on one side of his face , his toupee not quite straight . |
| 2 | When I had nothing on at all he sat on the floor beside the bed with his cheek resting on one arm and watched my face while he caressed me . |
| 3 | His team declared on 235 for four and the home side were 202 for five at the close . |
| 4 | Suddenly his eye fell on one stubble-shaved neck and back of head . |
| 5 | Ivan Lawrence , through , the Tory MP for Burton on Trent , reports that while his team were marching up the street loudspeakering in Yoxall , his wife knocked on one door to be greeted with ‘ It 's open . |
| 6 | The photo had been taken indoors and in poor light : the boy was sitting at a table , his head resting on one hand , a candle flickering nearby . |
| 7 | Haverford , his head cocked on one side , was casting an eye over blonde girls from Sweden , Guildford or Saskatoon , quite undiscouraged when they did n't return his smile but merely quickened their pace towards the souvenir stalls . |
| 8 | He looked at me with his head cocked on one side like a bright-eyed bird . |
| 9 | Edward , Helen could see from his stance , was bored : he had his head tilted on one side and was watching a bird in a tree behind Peter Sidey 's left ear . |
| 10 | Weak for once , Baldwin accepted this , and let his henchman resign on 29 May . |
| 11 | Mr. Tully 's claim to privilege is taken in paragraph 6 of his affidavit sworn on 31 July 1991 and is in the vaguest of terms : |
| 12 | His father died on 16 July 1580 , bidding Alford in his will to study till he was twenty , and then to ‘ seek ’ Burghley . |
| 13 | Creed stared out of the window , his chin cushioned on one hand , his eyes doubly concealed , first by the tinted windows of the car , then by his sunglasses . |
| 14 | He knew that his life depended on two letters , one to Lanyon and one to Poole . |
| 15 | His critique centres on two related problems : in the first place if , as Foucault argues , the expulsion of madness by reason constitutes the possibility of history as such , so that this gesture of exclusion produces the fundamental structure of historicity , then the ‘ classical ’ moment of this proscription that he describes must be an example rather than an originary moment . |
| 16 | But his music lives on 35 years after his first hit . |
| 17 | Thus , on the facts of the Dodds case , where a landlord gave notice of termination of a tenancy of business premises under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 on the 30 September 1978 , the ‘ four month ’ period during which the tenant had a right to apply for a new tenancy expired at midnight on 30 January , and so his application made on 31 January 1979 was invalid as being out of time . |
| 18 | CENGIZ ALTUN : A journalist , he was shot dead on his way to work on 24 February 1992 , shortly after publishing an article stating that security forces had threatened to kill him ; |
| 19 | His conviction rested on two confessions Gilmour alleges were respectively beaten out of him and concocted by police officers . |
| 20 | Lancaster , Preston , where the Old Pretender 's advance had foundered , and which his son reached on 26 November , and Wigan all fell at the mere approach of the all-conquering young prince . |
| 21 | His death occurred on 14 December ( ASC D , s.a 705 ) . |