Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] on his " in BNC.
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| 31 | Discontent simmered and a new element , political Radicalism , appeared in the shape of peripatetic agitators , critics like William Cobbett who spoke to crowded meetings on his ‘ rural rides ’ through Sussex in 1825 . |
| 32 | Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India . |
| 33 | His thick lashes made dark fans on his high cheekbones , and firelight flickering on his face emphasised the planes and angles , turning it into a bronze mask . |
| 34 | There were small ginger hairs on his chin and his groping mouth stank of beer . |
| 35 | In any case he had dangerous worries on his own doorstep . |
| 36 | His shirt was open two or three buttons , revealing the strong line of his bronzed throat and the scattering of dark hairs on his chest . |
| 37 | But the Fianna Fail Deputy , who is no stranger to controversy , said the scandal could have serious repercussions on his political career . |
| 38 | At Wiseton , in the Nottinghamshire plain between the Idle and the Trent , one landlord — Jonathan Ackham — built seven new homesteads on central sites on his estate after enclosure . |
| 39 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 40 | The mischief still shone through in those crinkly eyes and the warm smile that had greeted thousands of nervous guests on his TV game show The Price Is Right . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | In a fiery speech at the " peace summit " on May 24 , the king had warned the ANC against verbal attacks on his people , which he called " killing talk " , and said that he would not acquiesce in demands to give up the bearing of traditional weapons . |
| 43 | Nevertheless he had to move cautiously , aware of the considerable prospective opposition from the remaining Gladstonians on his own backbenches , from the Conservatives , and from the Lords . |
| 44 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |
| 45 | He wore a T-shirt regardless of the season of the year and kept his hair cropped short enough to reveal the half-dozen tiny scars on his head where the stubble would n't grow . |
| 46 | Their travelling days are now all but over , following a recent trip to Guyana , which landed Horace in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases on his return . |
| 47 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 48 | There were some quite nasty-looking cuts on his head , and the sergeant was a bit apprehensive about turning him over . |
| 49 | Leaving aside those equity partners who , exceptionally , are never obliged to put cash into the firm , as mentioned in Chapter 4 , the choice lies between : ( 1 ) seeking capital contributions when the new partner joins the firm , he borrowing the amount required as necessary ; or ( 2 ) allowing the new member of the firm to buy his way in over a period out of his profit share , appropriate restrictions on his drawings being imposed as " security " for the agreed payments . |
| 50 | Obviously he 's never going to get his chair up serious hills on his own , but is it too much to ask for the planners of country parks and the like to consider less able users when planning level routes such as nature trails ? |
| 51 | He looked through the pile of engraved cards on his escritoire . |
| 52 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 53 | He had survived six previous attempts on his life . |
| 54 | In 1838 having returned from his circumnavigating voyage , Charles Darwin sat down at his desk in his lodgings in Great Marlborough Street , London , to write some brief notes on his views concerning marriage . |
| 55 | ‘ Yeah , he had hair like pop stars , those little bobbles on his head . ’ |
| 56 | This was then applied to the native influences on his economic thought . |
| 57 | John Arlott pointed to the importance of Australian influences on his next and so far more important book , The Players . |
| 58 | She held his wrist and smoothed the soft hairs on his arm . |
| 59 | He was wearing a T-shirt , and she slid her hands beneath it and threaded her fingers through the soft curls on his chest . |
| 60 | His injuries were far more serious than he had imagined ; he had incurred third-degree burns on his hands and a serious infection had spread into his bloodstream . |