Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried several times to talk to his sister Laetitia on the telephone , but she continued to be elusive . |
| 2 | Rubberneck , on his part — he saw his sister gloat over the suitcase , the bits of coloured paper — well , he preferred that she gloated ; it was a rest , his knees on the hard floor , that they knelt in endless prayer . |
| 3 | Mr Shevardnadze , worn out by the struggle for reform , used his resignation speech to the Congress to give warning that a new dictatorship was in preparation . |
| 4 | As chairman of the central committee , Sharon opened the meeting by reading the text of his resignation letter to the Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , and the other 3,000 assembled delegates . |
| 5 | Mr Cheney refused to pay his income tax on the ground that part of it would be used to build nuclear weapons for use in circumstances which would be in breach of the Geneva Convention Act 1957 , and that this illegal purpose rendered his tax demand invalid . |
| 6 | Later , when Caxton set up his printing press in the fifteenth century , the expert printers he employed were Dutch : so although the written language became more standardised , many of our odder spellings derive from the attempts of Dutchmen to symbolise English words . |
| 7 | Early in the eighteenth century , Charles Whittingham moved his printing press from the City of London into a house on Chiswick Mall — as that river front became known — called ‘ High House ’ , and The Chiswick Press was established . |
| 8 | In what spare time he had , Garrett put his electronics experience into the building of metal detectors for use in treasure hunting . |
| 9 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 10 | All we saw of Macca was him being handed back his captn armband by the ref when it fell off . |
| 11 | The wise student will at the outset of his course look at the examination papers for the past few years , and , whether compelled to or not , will write out the answers to some questions ( even though only in brief note form ) in order to gain practice in self-expression . |
| 12 | He pulled a photograph out of his shirt pocket inside the overall , and held it out to Anna . |
| 13 | For instance , he wanted to invite his meditation group to the party . |
| 14 | She never heard the front door close , nor his foot fall on the stairs , nor even the bedroom door slowly opening behind her . |
| 15 | He even left his foot imprint in the middle of my head . ’ |
| 16 | Finally , one of them placed his foot flat on the box , right over Caroline 's face , and forced it down into the grave . |
| 17 | There arose within me without warning , and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries , the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery . |
| 18 | When Ovid wrote his text book on the art of loving nearly 2,000 years ago , he advised women that ‘ no rude goat should find his way beneath your arms , and that your legs be not rough with bristling hairs . ’ |
| 19 | It concludes — you want a quote from a famous person — ‘ In his decision letter of the sixth of September , the Secretary of State for Energy accepted this recommendation , ’ that is , that the figures are quoted in kilogrammes per stations with appropriate error bands specified for the quantities per station |
| 20 | He laughs , gazing out of his apartment window towards the dome of St Paul 's Cathedral , rising above the City of London 's grimy skyline . |
| 21 | Miyazawa had also called during his election campaign for the political rehabilitation and " purification " of Japanese politicians who had been implicated , like himself , in the financial scandals of recent years . |
| 22 | By the early 1920s , however , the NCOAP 's rhetoric on thrift had become , in a sense , a gift to the enemy : in November 1923 the Conservatives pledged that ‘ the encouragement of thrift and independence must be the underlying principle of all our social reforms ’ , whilst in his election address of the following year Baldwin declared that the aim of ‘ all-in ’ insurance was ‘ to get rid of inquisitorial inquiries and encourage thrift ’ . |
| 23 | As part of his plea agreement with the government , Mr Jacobson is cooperating with the continuing investigation into defence industry corruption . |
| 24 | President Paul Biya took office on Nov. 3 for a third term , following a disputed victory in the Oct. 11 presidential elections [ see p. 39130 ] , declaring in his inauguration address to the National Assembly that he intended to undertake a major revision of the Constitution . |
| 25 | Karpov decided to enter an end game in the hope of relieving the pressure , but Short skilfully took control of the only open file on the board with both his rooks and activated the king and advanced his pawn majority on the queenside . |
| 26 | If the managers , or some of them , own shares in Target , these could be exchanged for Newco shares and , provided the conditions of s135 TCGA 1992 are satisfied , and clearance under s138 , to the effect that the transaction is bona fide commercial , is obtained , this should be treated as neither a disposal of the Target shares nor an acquisition of the consideration shares in Newco , so that a manager 's base cost in his Newco shares will equate to his base cost in the Target shares . |
| 27 | It would destroy jobs , er all I would say to the honourable gentleman is that he will have noticed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer er used one of the announcements in his budget statement on the thirtieth of November last year er to announce that we shall be introducing a modern apprenticeship scheme . |
| 28 | Although during the 1987 congressional inquiry into the affair Poindexter shielded Reagan ( then President ) from any responsibility for the operation , his defence strategy against the criminal charges rested upon the claim that he had believed that he was acting with the President 's authority . |
| 29 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 30 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |