Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 2 | What he experienced through his hands made more sense to him than written words of instruction . |
| 3 | Every musical form which passed through his hands emerged immeasurably the richer . |
| 4 | Promoters who fought for his services paid appearance money for the wonder dog who could boost attendances by 500 per cent . |
| 5 | She knelt between his knees looking small and vulnerable : her lips pouting provocatively , her eyes full of feminine promise . |
| 6 | He had not found a single Tory MP who disagreed with his efforts to ameliorate the introduction of the tax in England and Wales next April . |
| 7 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 8 | But on occasions he stopped in his tracks to wonder just what he was doing here , amidst all this elegance and opulence , numbering the rich and famous and powerful amongst his clients — and his friends . |
| 9 | He rose to his feet to hold her more firmly . |
| 10 | THE PIPES BLEW OUT and an enormous haggis was paraded through the hall as Neil MacCormick , Home Affairs spokesman of the Scottish National Party , rose to his feet to toast ‘ the Immortal Memory of Rabbie Burns ’ . |
| 11 | Farquhar staggered to his feet to attack , but Lachlan held him back . |
| 12 | We have also heard some honest interventions , however , The hon. and learned Member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) staggered to his feet to tell us that he did not believe a word of what Ministers were saying . |
| 13 | Flames stabbed across the furniture from the French side , and the General shouted at his men to hold their damned fire and to pull the barricade down instead . |
| 14 | Sar n't Major Biggleswade signalled for his troops to follow , and made a dash across the burning street . |
| 15 | ‘ Petr suffered with his parents divorcing when he was 13 , ’ says Zednick . |
| 16 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 17 | MacDonald appealed to his colleagues to accept the larger economies … |
| 18 | The President appealed to his compatriots to stand with him in support of the war , declaring that its cost in lives " is beyond our power to measure , but the cost of closing our eyes to aggression is beyond mankind 's power to imagine " . |
| 19 | A grinning young pistolier pulled faces behind his back and gestured to his fellows to indicate that the zealot was mad . |
| 20 | As the mortar-flashes lit up Dead Rat , Holm Rodriguez signalled to his soldiers to move in . |
| 21 | At a time when realist painters were focusing on the urban landscape , the routine and everyday , Minton 's decision to rework another artist 's evocation of a grand historical event seemed to his students puzzling and eccentric . |
| 22 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 23 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 24 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 25 | He eyed her for a moment , spat in disgust , and ignoring her , turned to his men crowding the galley 's side . |
| 26 | He rode with his legs spread wide , boots skimming the riverbed . |
| 27 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 28 | However , I soon tired of his attempts to help our neighbours . |
| 29 | The second form of associative learning , operant conditioning , was developed by the contemporary American psychologist , Skinner , who not only conducted laboratory experiments with animals , but , unlike most other theorists , also developed from his findings teaching procedures for use with people , especially programmed learning and teaching machines . |
| 30 | Parin nodded , and he signed to his assistants to roll up the books so that they could be packed away in the boxes and chests in which they were stored . |