Example sentences of "his [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepted no payment , and ignored a ban on his stroking by the Dean of Lismore . |
| 2 | They turned a corner and Corbett had to hide his trembling at the appearance of the small , squat , one-eyed man who seemed to rise out of the darkness before them . |
| 3 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 4 | He has no power whatever , of course , and does his stuff in the Reserve Medical Corps with impeccable ovinity . |
| 5 | Does not this inclination arise from his believing in the goodness , the worth , of what has this property and from his belief that its goodness is an important ethical truth ? |
| 6 | The threat of his withdrawing from the coalition was again sufficient to rally the support of Roh , who was forced to join Kim in disowning the planned constitutional reform [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 7 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 8 | ‘ Rosemary does n't want you living quite so close ? ’ his mother bridled , having been very much against his going at the start , but now , because he looked so upset , ready to take up cudgels on his behalf . |
| 9 | She slept badly , often waking to listen so that she would not his going in the morning . |
| 10 | His hand moved to tug her shirt free of the waistband of her trousers and she felt his touch on the warmth of her skin , his fingers moulding her body like a contented tiger . |
| 11 | Dry clash 'd his harness in the icy caves |
| 12 | Yes , he 'll have to make his beds and he does his share of the cooking and all ! |
| 13 | All UNACO operatives were allowed to choose their own handguns and , although he had initially used a Colt .45 , there had been one main reason for his converting to the Beretta : its magazine capacity fifteen rounds as opposed to the Colt 's seven . |
| 14 | ANDREW Morton , author of the best-seller , Diana : Her True Story won his second award in a week at the What the Papers Say Awards lunch when he was named investigator of the year for his delving into the Royal Family which led to his best-selling book Diana : Her True Story . |
| 15 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 16 | One who did put up was Ba Pe , but Aung San was nauseated by his persisting with the corrupt practices which had disfigured pre-war parliamentary politics : and anyway his usefulness was exhausted . |
| 17 | These include his referring to the advertising ban as a ‘ totalitarian step ’ , casting doubt on the ban as a health measure . |
| 18 | Among snatches of conversation , both of us remember his referring to the underground as being rather like hell . |
| 19 | Trent held eight of the fresh thousand-dollar bills folded in the back pocket of his jeans ; the original three for the charter augmented by a further five in payment for his agreeing to the rendezvous . |
| 20 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |
| 21 | If any proof were needed to insist that confessors and directors should avoid pressing their penitents into any clearly established scheme but instead should simply wait upon the Lord and watch and assist his working in the individual soul , this diversity among the great masters of the spiritual life should be sufficient . |