Example sentences of "[noun] on his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , there was an oil smear on his jacket of the same type as that he used in his car . |
| 32 | As he went down again , and traversed the headmaster 's hall on his way to the study , Pumfrey thought he caught a glimpse of the head 's pallid face through the crack of an open door . |
| 33 | The Right Honourable Sir Edward Heath on his way into the Logie Theatre to present the Williamson Memorial Lecture . |
| 34 | With the blood specimen in his left hand … he started along the main corridor on his way toward the stairs . |
| 35 | I remember the humiliation of a British Chancellor on his knees before the IMF . |
| 36 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 37 | William George Smith was born at Southampton on Nov 4 1923 , son of a Merchant Navy engineer who had accompanied Shackleton on his journey to the Antarctic . |
| 38 | I think he has done a great job on his return to the side . ’ |
| 39 | In other incidents ( i ) Sam Chand , a PAC activist , was among six people assassinated in a bomb explosion in Botswana on April 23 ; ( ii ) his brother Ishmael Chand died in an accident on his way to the funeral ; and ( iii ) the secretary of the PAC internal wing , Benny Alexander , and other PAC members travelling with him were seriously injured in a car crash in the northern Cape on May 3 . |
| 40 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 41 | DETECTIVES are investigating after a teenager was threatened and robbed of cash on his way to the bank . |
| 42 | At a news conference on his return from the Soviet Union , Byambasuren said that the two sides had reached a basic agreement on the terms of settlement of Mongolia 's debt owed to the Soviet Union . |
| 43 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 44 | turnkey who greets Pickwick on his arrival at the Fleet , and finds him accommodation . |
| 45 | And if one moved like the wind in branches , the other 's motion was a tower falling , a frightening , uncoordinated progression in which he seemed to crash forward uncontrollably at each stride , jerking himself stiffly upright and swaying for a moment on his heels before the next toppling step . |
| 46 | Paulino Paiakan , Kayapo leader on his visit to the UK in 1988 . |
| 47 | I was less moved than ever by M. Chaillot 's little lecture on his responsi-bilities to the public purse . |
| 48 | Taylor , however , is hoping that ‘ Gazza ’ may not need to wear the protective covering on his face against the Poles and has arranged for him to visit the surgeon who performed the original operation to check on his recovery so far . |
| 49 | Aloysius ‘ Al ’ Fairweather , Jnr , United States ambassador to the Court of St James , had received the message conveyed by the British Foreign Office the previous evening on his return from the Upper Heyford USAF base . |
| 50 | Mr Lawson , who has never found it easy to win the affection of the party conference , now faces the trickiest political test of his career in attempting to avert unseemly attacks on his competence from the Conservative grassroots . |
| 51 | Nine years later Masaryk resigned and Plečnik left too , amidst attacks on his designs by the conservation group the Friends of Old Prague . |
| 52 | N.Z. A Weak Heart : Roddie on his bike in the evening , with his hands in his pockets , doing marvels by that dark tree at the corner of May Street . |
| 53 | between a lot of parked cars and there was a , I was coming down the road and all I needed to do was to actually stop where I was cos there was enough room on his side of the road for him to come past the parked car and round me |
| 54 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 55 | Talk by Ray Cecil on his manifesto for the forthcoming RIBA Presidential Election , in Leeds Polytechnic , Brunswick Terrace , Leeds LS2 8BU ( 0532 ) 832600 ext. 4082 . |
| 56 | By this time the newspapers had lost interest , and the route that Mr Wolski had carefully traced each day on his atlas on the basis of news reports ended near Galashiels in the Southern Uplands of Scotland , where a British Trust for Ornithology report gave a good account of a ‘ vagrant ’ juvenile eagle being seen feeding . |
| 57 | The Blue Mosque , which Owen had seen the previous day on his visit to the bazaars , was a dervish mosque , used almost exclusively by such as the Zikr . |
| 58 | He also accompanied Botham on his walk with the elephants across the Alps for Leukaemia Research . |
| 59 | Broomhead Smith had other things on his mind besides the horse . |
| 60 | He had his back to us and other things on his mind by the look of him . |