Example sentences of "on his [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointed at the value put on his company by the stock market , which compared it with other electronics groups , he decided to spin-off Vodafone and Chubb . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although the jury heard eight hours of videotaped testimony by Reagan [ see p. 37241 ] , the former President was often confused and vague about operational details and did little to shed any further light on his involvement in the affair . |
| 4 | Stich , Wimbledon king two years ago , unleashed nine aces , and was only in trouble on his serve in the opening game of the match , when he saved three break points . |
| 5 | Stich , Wimbledon king two years ago , unleashed nine aces , and was only in trouble on his serve in the opening game of the match , when he saved three break points . |
| 6 | Like the Dvořák , this performance has all the intensity and thrust of a live recording ( and how delightful , too , are the pictorial elements ; the errand boy whistling on his bike in the opening movement , for instance ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He congratulated Ortega on his conduct of the elections and called for a ceasefire in the contra war , stating that " given the clear mandate for peace and democracy there is no reason for further military activity from any quarter " . |
| 9 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 10 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 11 | By the time of his third Melbourne Cup in November he had already won eight races as a five-year-old and had become a national idol , but the handicapper had shovelled ten stone ten pounds on his back for the Cup , so it was no disgrace when he could finish only eighth . |
| 12 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Gary ended up on his back with the cross bar on his chest area . |
| 14 | One was lying on his back on the stretcher and appeared to be badly wounded . |
| 15 | Sprawled on his back on the deck , he lay exhausted under a waterfall of waves breaking over the cabin top . |
| 16 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 17 | So Preston put his reservations behind him and his wrist in front and lay on his back on the sofa while Emily bounced on him . |
| 18 | Taff lay down on his back on the floor of the trench , oblivious to the mosquitoes and everything else and was soon snoring loudly . |
| 19 | Even as she was spluttering , Estelle straddled the older officer who was lying on his back on the floor . |
| 20 | Toby was lying on his back on the bed , smoking . |
| 21 | He landed on his back on the bed which was in the centre of the chamber below , and it collapsed . |
| 22 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 23 | Alan lay on his back on the grass , hands clasped under his head , eyes closed . |
| 24 | Leon lay on his back on the table , with one leg crossed over the other , the preparations for dinner all around him . |
| 25 | When the patient lies on his back on the plinth , his head , shoulders and trunk are supported on a wedge cushion . |
| 26 | Johnny was there , lying on his back under the boughs of the apple tree . |
| 27 | She watched William bank into a turn , narrowly miss another Jet Ski and plough into the wash of a water-ski boat , sending William — in a new variation on his repertoire of falls — somersaulting over the handlebars of the Jet Ski and flopping on his back into the water in a cloud of spray . |
| 28 | as if in slow motion she had seen Benny travel backwards through the air , landing heavily on his back among the rubbish that littered the end of the garden . |
| 29 | Aware of this , he spins on his back in the manner of a break dancer and the spin gives him the momentum to strike at the legs of the attacker . |
| 30 | He 'd been beaten up , lied to , and left flat on his back in the Underground . |