Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He estimated his wave at between thirty and thirty-five . |
| 2 | Unfortunately Whelo has been out injured since the season 's start about breaking a bone in his foot against of all teams Milwall . |
| 3 | Draping another washed sack over his head to form a hood , he lit a lantern and then , seizing his crook from behind the door , set off to call his dogs . |
| 4 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 5 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 6 | Leeds new centre signing Kevin Iro wo n't make his debut for at least six weeks after a specialist said that the Kiwi international 's injury was worse than first feared . |
| 7 | I pulled his hair from between its spikes , not so grey as mine . |
| 8 | Mr Clarke made a direct appeal to Norman Lamont , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , to support his bid for between £1-2bn extra for the NHS budget next year . |
| 9 | Away goes Lawrence , rumbling away from us now steams up his run waits and ducks , but it goes over the back of his neck through to Russell , no run . |
| 10 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 11 | He had increased his speed to between forty and fifty miles an hour . |
| 12 | She took his photograph from beneath the lining paper in her drawer and looked at it and tried again to cry . |
| 13 | Congratulations to , processing , on his marriage to in Fort Jesus , Mombasa on . |
| 14 | But he could not shift his gaze from off her sex . |
| 15 | And when they went to pick him up some somebody picked him up by his sort of under his arms sort of thing , and he had a double hernia through that . |
| 16 | I do n't think his sort of by work . |
| 17 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 18 | There tends to be an easy assumption that satisfactory job training exists because everyone who remains in post in a library must of necessity have learnt to do his job to at least minimum standards … ’ |
| 19 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 20 | Gabriel took his Bible from under his arm as if it were loaded , and opened it . |
| 21 | James saved his team on at least three other occasions . |
| 22 | A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone , and his tattooed arms rested on the desk in front of him , which was covered with mementoes of his Legion career . |
| 23 | The Aten was at first described as " the living Re-Harakhty who rejoices in the horizon in his name Shu ( light ) who is Aten " and later as " the living Re , ruler of the Two Horizons , who rejoices in the horizon in his name of Re the father who returns as Aten " . |
| 24 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 25 | This is accounted for by the rather different procedure adopted in child sexual abuse investigations when there is an urgent need to protect the suspected victim and her or his evidence from outside pressure which may well emanate from the victim 's family . |
| 26 | The lowest tier of planks cleared his head by at least a foot . |
| 27 | The world 's least sympathetic mountaineer is forced to continue his schadenfreude from beyond the grave . |
| 28 | It 's now forgotten that when Hugh Dalton began to publish his memoirs with large chunks of his diary in in the late fifties and early sixties , particularly the the high tide volume that came out about the Labour government of forty five to fifty one which was very venomous . |
| 29 | But as the most famous boxer in the modern history of the game , Tyson found himself back in an environment he hoped he had turned his back on for ever . |
| 30 | His removal from office came as the climax of a mounting campaign against his leadership from within his own Vanua'aku Pati ( VP ) . |