Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was on his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swung her up so she was on his upper arm , patting his face quite hard and pulling at his beard . |
| 2 | If I was on his staff , as I was during the election , you can have a lot of power — influence — because you can say , ‘ I think you should do this Prime Minister , I think you should do that . |
| 3 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 4 | I 'm going to lie in bed in the darkness and the music and think I 'm with G.P. and he 's lying over there with his eyes shut and his pitted cheek and his Jew 's nose ; as if he was on his own tomb . |
| 5 | She took his mind off Mandy , and that was strange considering she was on his daughter 's case . |
| 6 | The rehabilitated star is once again in his orbit , making movies virtually back to back instead of not making movies because he was on his back . |
| 7 | It was open to the solicitor , if the appellants be right , to explain to the judge why they were absent , because it was on his advice . |
| 8 | They 'd probably switched it on by remote control while he was on his way up . |
| 9 | It was while he was on his way that he was overtaken by the French army at Crécy-en-Ponthieu where , on 26 August 1346 , the first of the major land battles of the war was fought . |
| 10 | ‘ He could n't have made us do what he wanted otherwise since he was on his own . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That Celebrated Seaman ’ , as a sixpenny biography described him , continued to embarrass the British government even after he was on his way back to France . |
| 12 | He did have ( and I know this as I was on his staff at the time ) some sympathy with Coastal Command in view of its flight in the Atlantic , particularly in the Western Approaches and more especially in what was called the " black pit " , this was an area in the Atlantic where the RAF could not give air cover to the convoys either from Ireland . |
| 13 | Is n't it the case that Palmerston when he was on his death bed had the clause to the Belgian treaty read to him to cheer him up . |
| 14 | He 'd joined the International Brigade just before Franco 's final victories and been sent back when he was on his way to Cardiff to catch the potato boat to Bilbao . |
| 15 | She urged him out of the chair , and when he was on his feet , she began to undress him . |
| 16 | I called him Peter , after his father , who used to tour around a bit and always came to see me when he was on his travels . |
| 17 | Oliver sang very little now Gran was too tired to play the organ , though sometimes he sang hymns softly to himself when he was on his own in the garden . |
| 18 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 19 | Nigel accompanied her , as he was on his way to see his mother . |
| 20 | They were ordered by Stirling to stay put and wait for him , as he was on his way back to the desert . |
| 21 | I think he 's as far wrong on that as he was on his projections about GM Europe going out of business four years ago . |
| 22 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 23 | However , prospects for the restoration of calm appeared to be jeopardized by the arrest by Georgian police on Jan. 30 of Torez Kolumbegov , chair of the South Ossetia regional soviet , reportedly as he was on his way to talks with Georgian leaders . |
| 24 | A 16-year-old youth is in hospital with serious head injuries after an accident as he was on his way to school . |
| 25 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting for life in Walton Hospital today after being hit by a van as he was on his way to school . |
| 26 | also back from the Olympics is cyclist Steve Farrell … no rest for him though he was on his bike again yesterday trying to defend his title in the Tour of the Cotswolds |