Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 . |
| 2 | Author Ian Fleming 's original unpublished notes on his most famous creation are to go under the hammer at London auctioneers Sotheby 's on December 15 . |
| 3 | She watched him check to make sure each man wore a woollen jersey under his wet suit , plus woollen socks and rubber-soled trainers on his feet . |
| 4 | Broad limes on his head , a beard of holly , tufts of pear , shoulders of whitebeam , a chest of browning oak and elm , belly of ivy and brilliant yellow autumn sycamore . |
| 5 | He threw out his hands again and set a grin through clenched teeth on his burning face . |
| 6 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 7 | But Koch 's vacillating views on his own afterguard line-up , seemingly decided at the last minute with minimal consultation among his senior crew , is bemusing observers . |
| 8 | ‘ You can judge for yourself , ’ she reminded him , her clear eyes on his frowning face . |
| 9 | " CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point , but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or who might not be handed over to the Russians or Partisans to be shot . " |
| 10 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 11 | The rain had soaked into his cloak as he slept , and it hung in heavy damp folds on his shoulders . |
| 12 | Now what tends to happen is , as you know , there is lots and lots of different guests on his chat show and if he feels threatened by them in any way shape or form , what he does he relaxes her , comes in over the top , turns them over , takes them by the shoulder and pushes them into the chair and what he is saying , he is saying , this is my chat show , do n't you submit . |
| 13 | You could see the broken veins on his nose and see the puffy skin above his eyelids , bunched up like old crêpe curtains . |
| 14 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 15 | Robert May gives several different variations on his " black tart stuff " recipe , one of which includes damsons . |
| 16 | Nobody is playing as yet , but the lines have been freshly painted , a large old roller is being stored by an elderly man with tribal scars on his cheeks ( like the marks made by French grill pans on bifteck ) , and a big jug of lemon squash is standing in the shade of a little thatched tennis house , protected from the desires of wasps and flies by a beaded lace doily . |
| 17 | Madra touched his face , traced the old scars on his forehead . |
| 18 | Later that day Miss Jeanette noticed fresh scratches on his face . |
| 19 | His jokeless act consists of long , arcanely-enunciated , pause-dotted ruminations on his mom 's new boyfriend ( ‘ … some guy that sits around my mom 's pool and sponges off her . |
| 20 | Izetbegovic was detained by the Serbian forces on his return to Sarajevo from Lisbon on May 2 . |
| 21 | He reduced speed and carefully wiped each of his own damp hands on his coat . |
| 22 | Lambert came back , wiping his wet hands on his face . |
| 23 | A white Australian boy appears , and proceeds to do ‘ wheelies ’ around the two old women on his racing bike . |
| 24 | He would tend to have a number of lowly women on his books living in the locality whom he could call upon at short notice to attend — the Mrs Gamps of this world . |
| 25 | His body dripped blood from several self-inflicted wounds on his chest and arms . |
| 26 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 27 | The knot under his chin was still firmly fastened and he had extensive burns on his head and face . |
| 28 | Macmillan showered political honours on his backbenchers like confetti , and during the thirteen years of Conservative government which ended in 1964 over two hundred MPs , one third of all those who sat on the Tory benches , were rewarded with some sort of gong . |
| 29 | Mr Reynolds admitted that he had been afraid to eat or drink because of the possible effects on his bowel and bladder . |
| 30 | The information is , indeed , available but it would take a very canny investor to calculate all the possible effects on his return . |