Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one-liner style of stand-up and get rid of his immortal catch-phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus ! ’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . |
| 2 | Girardelli suffered severe bruising to his hip and the small of his back and has been advised to rest for a month and so could miss six World Cup races . |
| 3 | Stok stood up and put his hands on the small of his back and threw his head back like a man in pain . |
| 4 | She locked her arms around the small of his back and pulled him hard into her , crazed by the sensation caused by his utter maleness enveloping her softness . |
| 5 | An injunction was granted in that case to enforce that duty ordering the owner to maintain a hoarding around a vacant piece of his land or find some other way to prevent trespassers from using and depositing filth and refuse there , which amongst other things , gave rise to foul odours . |
| 6 | But clearly there is a point beyond which restrictions can not reasonably be imposed on the grounds of good neighbourliness without payment of compensation — and ‘ general considerations of regional or national policy require so great a restriction on the landowner 's use of his land as to amount to a taking away from him of a proprietary interest in the land ’ . |
| 7 | He shut the door of his apartment and turned to her at once , putting her shoulders against the wall , knocking her legs apart with his knee . |
| 8 | As an invalid might , or a child , Wallace Ellwood sat in a chair by the window of his apartment and watched the traffic go by . |
| 9 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 10 | Robyn saw the tightness in his expression , the grim set of his jaw and began to scramble up from her half-lying position on the settee . |
| 11 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 12 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |
| 13 | Wordsworth regarded the Cumberland of his childhood as possessing some of the Rousseauesque characteristics of such a society : |
| 14 | ‘ You would almost think he had heard the news as well , ’ said Morgund of Moray , who had a round red bruise from a spear-butt in the middle of his forehead and had blunted his axe on six men . |
| 15 | There was a desperate look on Bicker 's face though , oddly , Isay 's eyes were as bright with anger as Ratagan 's had been and the Myrcan staff was out of his belt and cocked in his fists . |
| 16 | She listened for the click of his door and relaxed when it came , only to be aware of every sound he made . |
| 17 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 18 | In these dismal surroundings the Prince president was supposed to uphold the dignity of his position and to represent worthily the French nation . |
| 19 | It is a most important matter that a councillor should not take advantage of his position and use it for his own personal gain . |
| 20 | " An ambassador " , wrote a member of the staff of the Spanish embassy in London in the 1690s , " should be specially careful to maintain the authority of his position and assert his prerogatives , as for instance in not giving the door or the right hand to any minister or individual , whether of his own country or another … |
| 21 | A statement expressed ‘ sincere regret ’ for the letter informing Mr Gooch of his dismissal and confirmed the letter was based on misinformation . |
| 22 | She brings him food , amateurishly tends his horrendous wound , and he shows her photographs of his home and makes her daisy chains . |
| 23 | Edward turned away from the assembled prelates and nobles of his council and addressed Philip V as follows : |
| 24 | That old devil , Time , was what he saw there , Time at his insidious work , leafing through the picture-album of his past and using the sky outside the window to throw long-forgotten images onto its evening brightness , each disposition of cloud-shape and colour-tint magically re-forming into a scene from his Granard childhood . |
| 25 | Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends . |
| 26 | It may well be necessary at the time of ordering a reference to a referee to agree the limits of his remuneration and to undertake to make payment thereof when called upon ; the district judge is required when the report is filed to fix the remuneration of the referee , unless it has been agreed ( Ord 19 , r 9(g) ( ii ) ) . |
| 27 | Early in September the four Thomas brothers were told to make ready for the journey home , where Ernest had to re-sit for his Teacher 's Certificate , and Edward was left with scarcely a month to reassure Helen of his faithfulness and to make his final preparations before beginning his historical studies with Owen M. Edwards . |
| 28 | He 's had to memorise the layout of his nursery and identifies different species by their touch , smell and taste . |
| 29 | In fact when the cleaning lady has an ‘ audit ’ of his desk and tidies up the heaps , it is a ‘ nightmare ’ , taking him up to half a day to get back on track . |
| 30 | ’ Franks opened a drawer of his desk and came out with a polythene bag . |