Example sentences of "on the [noun] [prep] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhausted by infighting , humiliated by his foes , he seemed on the verge of losing his struggle with parliament . |
| 2 | She knew he was on the verge of losing his job . |
| 3 | Hirst is on the mend after cracking his ankle at Highbury a fortnight ago , and Bright said : ‘ I like his style of play and feel we can work well together . |
| 4 | She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest . |
| 5 | Sometimes the rider will find too much grip and he can loosen the rubber 's hold on the tarmac by shifting his body forward , away from the rear tyre contact patch . |
| 6 | Chiang also sounded out Rhee on the possibility of basing his regime in South Korea in the event of Taiwan falling . |
| 7 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 8 | He was already on the way to establishing his role as a leading spokesman for the ‘ sixties generation ’ — a generation that was forced to handle change as never before , as Bernard Levin commented , in ‘ The Pendulum Years ’ : |
| 9 | But Walter was well on the way to knowing his way around . |
| 10 | Then he seized on the idea of demonstrating his cross-bow . |
| 11 | A trader should never act on the presumption of retrieving his circumstances when he had become flagrantly insolvent . |
| 12 | Why , Edward wondered , did Brackenbury speak yesterday of being off-duty on Thursday when he must already have been on the point of resigning his post ? |
| 13 | He was on the point of taking his own life because he was depressed over his ill health and at the , in the church one can find spiritual food and physical food together , and in our country that 's about the only place where you can find those two together . |
| 14 | Meirion desperately needed more remunerative work and was on the point of leaving his home town . |
| 15 | Wyllie , on the point of launching his biography which immodestly refers to him as ‘ The Legend , ’ says he no longer wants the job and has not let his name be put forward . |
| 16 | Rajiv Gandhi , on whose Congress Party the minority government of Chandra Shekhar depends , appeared this week to be on the point of withdrawing his support . |
| 17 | On the point of continuing his general reconnaissance , Sergeant Bird suddenly stiffened . |
| 18 | It 's a wonder I did n't kill Benjamin but , when I opened my eyes , two of the rogues were dead of huge gashes between shoulder and neck whilst Benjamin was on the point of driving his sword straight through the breast of a third . |
| 19 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 20 | ‘ Where I hope he will reflect on the unwisdom of employing his charm and duplicity on a woman as sharp as I. ’ |
| 21 | Salter later discovered that the figures on the costs of building his device appeared to have been deliberately misrepresented in order to justify this decision . |
| 22 | Along the way Mark Finlay , briefly an All Black fullback , and Marty Brooke , on the fringe of joining his two brothers in All Black colours , were attracted to Japan on working/coaching assignments . |
| 23 | And although there are similarities , too , not least in the prodigality of the invention , the real difference lies in the music : in essence , while Busoni , ten years younger , was on the doorstep of discovering his own language , Sergei Vasilyevich had found his some time back . |
| 24 | He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth . |
| 25 | Agreeing to finish the other half after a breather , Mungo waited for Jos to start on the greenhouse before making his unhurried exit from the yard . |
| 26 | The prince limped from the polo field at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor , yesterday and lay in agony on the sidelines after straining his back . |
| 27 | Judo : White remains the stylist in a world of brute force : Philip Nicksan meets a fighter on the mat after throwing his weight around on behalf of the British judo team |