Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |
| 2 | He had spent ages trying to get the words right on his note but somehow it all came out wrong . |
| 3 | But she leaned down and placed her soft lips gently on his bruised mouth . |
| 4 | I cleaned my legs off on his bed covering and selected a pair of rather fancy trousers from his wardrobe . |
| 5 | But when the inspectors went back earlier this year , they counted five hundred and fifty eight animals still on his farm . |
| 6 | ‘ There is time , ’ he murmured , not even looking at her , his eyes still on his sister . |
| 7 | He stared briefly and then became one enormous grin , pushing his spectacles up on his rubbery nose . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a special assignment , ’ Richie Lowell confided , his spectacles back on his nose , his mind back on business , ‘ and it 's straight from above . ’ |
| 9 | He had never favoured telepathy as a means of communication ; something about rolling words about on his tongue ( particularly ones with lots of rs in ) appealed too much to him . |
| 10 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |
| 11 | He would be back by midday , after four days away on his father 's business . |
| 12 | I remember a student who dropped into our home two years ago on his way around Europe . |
| 13 | The old man was walking beside the National Highway one evening four years ago on his way to a religious drama in another village . |
| 14 | For the man in the ‘ hot seat ’ , Christopher Barry , this seven part serial will prove an important stepping stone in his chosen career as a Director , a career which began some sixteen years earlier on his leaving the armed forces . |
| 15 | At the last fence Crisp , though he walloped the gorse into the air , still held a substantial lead , but Red Rum — with twenty-three pounds less on his back — was charging along now , and it was simply a matter of whether Crisp could survive the desperately long run to the winning post . |
| 16 | Moreover , an occupier may be liable if he deliberately causes the escape of things naturally on his land . |
| 17 | Burnden Park boss Bruce Rioch is keen to strengthen his squad after winning promotion to the First Division , and Manchester United 's Welsh international figures highly on his wanted list . |
| 18 | and hide , now , even if Keith 's arguing with the television , which he would , Politician , he 'll still go up and put his paws up on his knee , wag his tail , and bury his head and say , hit me instead , |
| 19 | As a member of the National Association of Young Cricketers Executive Committee , he arranged the Esso sponsorship of the NAYC Oxford and Cambridge Festivals virtually on his own and was always on the lookout for promising young players . |
| 20 | If you want to stay with STG , I 'll be happy to arrange to have your work handled by one of the other partners although it may take him a little time to be able to handle your affairs completely on his own without asking you a lot of questions . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , the case against the soldier involved rests primarily on his evidence , not hers . |
| 22 | All too often , however , we see him angry , hurt , suspicious of friends as much as enemies , rarely grateful to those who stuck their necks out on his behalf , working obsessively at powerfully emotional works while seemingly ignoring the emotions generated by the domestic chaos around him . |
| 23 | We are most worried that the Burmese Government have disregarded not only the United Nations Commission on Human Rights but the foreign minister of the Philippines who went to Burma on behalf of the Association of South-East Asian Nations but was allowed to make representations only on his own behalf . |
| 24 | She had brought the casket of chocolates down on his head and run away . |
| 25 | Keeping the perimeter fence a few yards away on his left , Angel One loped silently along until he reached its north-western limit . |
| 26 | He looked down into the fire , his lashes low on his cheeks . |
| 27 | By contrast , another tall reputation had looked fully justified at the start of the afternoon when Nashwan 's half-brother Mukddaam , survived a stewards ' inquiry after beating 18 rivals convincingly on his racecourse debut to become favourite for the Derby at 16-1 with William Hill . |
| 28 | I , I want to talk to you about er the conversation I had with Alec yesterday , he seems to be inundated with having to get details about on his er , all his paperwork and so on , and he seems to be inundated and he sounded a bit low , quite frankly , to me yesterday on the phone that he was getting inundated with all this |
| 29 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 30 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |