Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thorfinn sent Tuathal to sleep for ten minutes and , when he returned , dropped in his place on the bare earth of an old wattle barn , asleep before he stopped moving . |
| 32 | This work was summarized in his Studies on the Periodicity of Earthquakes ( 1938 ) . |
| 33 | The National Heritage Secretary David Mellor , 43 , resigned on Sept. 24 , the first Cabinet minister to resign since the formation of the new Conservative government in April [ see p. 38869 ] ; he was succeeded in his post by the former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke , 58 . |
| 34 | The difference is that with the first type , the innocent party , though entitled to damages , must still perform his part of the bargain , whereas with a repudiatory breach he may , in addition to claiming damages , regard himself as discharged from his obligations under the contract . |
| 35 | John Piper was , at the time , a constable , but was to be discharged from his duties at the following session . |
| 36 | Even though Garrett was totally immersed in his work for the NASA Space Programme the treasure hunting flame still flickered . |
| 37 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 38 | Er I come up to draw the President 's attention erm to a problem we have within the delegation and that is that when er Dick called the mover of resolution three eight one in the name of the Lancashire region John who was going to move the resolution was in fact sat in his seat within the delegation . |
| 39 | I 've got an appointment with — ’ he paused to look at the name at the foot of the letter which had been included in his holdall at the station ‘ -K . |
| 40 | The man , of no fixed address , was found collapsed in his cell in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 41 | In-form Smith , getting through a power of work , could have added to his tally in the final minute . |
| 42 | Last year she had come to his school for the first time , and every eye had turned to gape at her long red hair and golden earrings as she swept into the assembly-hall wearing one of her special dresses . |
| 43 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 44 | But this was dear old Mr Rabinowitz himself , spruced up , a new suit , who told in a quavering voice how this perfect stranger had come to his aid after the Blackshirts had smashed open his tailor 's shop . |
| 45 | Then , setting up in practice on his own c .1806 , he was employed at Heaton Hall , Lancashire , where both James and Samuel had worked previously ; and on Samuel 's death in 1807 he completed two of his commissions , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Hackwood Park , Hampshire , and in effect succeeded to his practice in the Cheshire area . |
| 46 | Geoffrey pointed to where the chaplain , William Hammond , dressed like a crow , sat perched on his stool near the fire . |
| 47 | Kemp 's difficulty in defining ‘ science ’ and ‘ art ’ is not confined to his discussion of the earlier period . |
| 48 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 49 | It was parked beyond his flat on the opposite side of the road . |
| 50 | But a new light was shed on his character by the way he treated his host and hostess . |
| 51 | And Preki , 29 , impressed on his debut in the Coca Cola Cup defeat at Rotherham on Wednesday . |
| 52 | Part I features seven neon murals , texts or figurative compositions , a new departure for the artist although they were previewed at his exhibition at the Fruitmarket in 1991 . |
| 53 | But if we extend the above argument , drawn from the motivation of ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Party to the wider electorate , we would have to conclude that here — probably to an even greater extent — Hitler 's image was not dominated by his obsession with the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 54 | Her father , another member of the Parliamentary class of ‘ 64 , was NW Durham 's Labour MP until succeeded by his daughter at the last election . |
| 55 | The last fish he had landed was a magnificent sea-trout weighing 6lb and , as he applied the priest , he was telling his companions about a similar fish , caught by his father in the dim and distant past : ‘ A beautiful fish , gentlemen , just like this one is . ’ |
| 56 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 57 | In such a situation the true owner may have been divested of his claim against the wrongdoer under section 8(2) ( d ) but if not , he might still be entitled to sue by virtue of his title . |
| 58 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 59 | Four days later it was announced that Tsedenbal had been stripped of his membership of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League . |
| 60 | Physicist Fang Lizhi , sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , was also criticized for " slandering " Marxism , and was stripped of his membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . |