Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 2 | The sound of his foot tapping on the floor . |
| 3 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 4 | New Zealand ended their period of 13 years without a home series defeat pathetically : Morrison stayed outside his crease concentrating on the outcome of an lbw appeal while a flick from Stewart knocked his bails off . |
| 5 | It depicts in relief Hercules holding his club kneeling on the back of a lion ( fig. 14.41 ) . |
| 6 | The student begins with his right foot forward , with most of his weight resting on the left leg . |
| 7 | Whoa , old girl , ’ soothed Ted , when he saw that even with all his weight pulling on the halter , there was no hope of saving her that way . |
| 8 | He went out and Robertson heard the hooves of his garron clopping on the road . |
| 9 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |
| 10 | In his article reporting on the recent declassification publication of Dr Hans Bethe 's 1954 article on the development of the Super , Professor P. V. Danckwerts cites my book J Robert Oppenheimer — Shatterer of Worlds , as the trigger for the publication ( Forum , 17 February , p 471 ) . |
| 11 | As for heating bills — this was summer-time — what was his wife burning on the occasional days when it was cool — gold-dust ? |
| 12 | Taff said sleepily as he stood up , then leaned over the side of the trench , his head resting on the grass . |
| 13 | He went to sleep as he stood there , clutching his glass , his forehead resting on the windowpane . |
| 14 | ‘ I believe in action , ’ he shouted from his palace balcony , his roar rustling on the radio , as if the radio were bristling at him , ‘ in violent action against the old ways . |
| 15 | Stephen lay flat , gazing out at the patterns of sunlight , his chin resting on the backs of his hands . |
| 16 | The Welsh campaign was actively supported by Don Arnott , a retired nuclear scientist who had spent most of his life working on the uses of radioactivity in medicine . |
| 17 | Bissell began to laugh again , his voice choking on the liquid plaster . |
| 18 | If the horse wo n't walk into the trailer , it 's best to let him eat some of his food standing on the ramp ( only of a two-horse trailer and obviously not that of a truck ) . |
| 19 | He pressed up close , his hand resting on the slope of her thigh . |
| 20 | He had ended his own life , but in the cold had remained crouched , his hand resting on the hilt of the blade which he had pushed into his heart . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't … ’ he began , then bit off the rest , his hand clenching on the fabric he still held . |
| 22 | Relentlessly , his dark eyes flaring with sexual menace , he pulled her against him , his hand pressing on the naked cushions of her soft white breasts . |
| 23 | That night , worried about the water entering his house as he slept , he left the edge of his bedsheet dangling on the ground so that the water would awaken him . |
| 24 | Not while the old man was here anyway , and he seems to spend most of his time sitting on the wall doing nothing in particular . ’ |
| 25 | They 've heard his mother hammering on the door , demanding that he open it to her . |
| 26 | His brother lying on the floor with his skull crushed . |