Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis ( 1973 ) , Freud discussed the way in which symptoms are experienced in certain forms of obsessional neurosis . |
| 2 | He responded by setting his murderous forces on the people — plundering their homes , their crops , their livestock . |
| 3 | She was wearing a tweed check suit in shades of lovat green and brown and she did n't want his sticky fingers on it — or worse . |
| 4 | Briefly , he touched her face , his strong fingers on her cheek , his thumb beneath her jaw , tilting it upwards . |
| 5 | He had practised his strange illusionisms on them , and sworn them to secrecy . |
| 6 | Patrick rubbed his sweating palms on the blanket . |
| 7 | On her return to the party a few minutes later , she almost bumped into James , who placed his clammy hands on her bare shoulders and squeezed them . |
| 8 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 9 | Reports continued of disagreements between Kurdish leaders [ see pp. 38308 ; 38361 ; 38407 ] after the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) , Masoud Barzani , challenged his political rivals on Oct. 29 to an electoral test to decide whether to accept the government 's autonomy plan or resort to armed struggle . |
| 10 | But the arguments of Bishop Joseph Butler , in his anti-Hobbesian Sermons on Human Nature ( 1726 ) , suggest that the structure of human nature is more complex than this . |
| 11 | Making a preparatory tour of his advanced troops on a pony , he was spotted by an English patrol . |
| 12 | Citrine insisted that the departmental chief officers met with his full-time colleagues on the Authority weekly , encouraging the officers to comment on general policy matters rather than confining their comments to their own specialisms : a method he had found worked well at the TUC . |
| 13 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 14 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , the deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said that this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 15 | The Prior would eventually have to obey his superiors , no matter what his private thoughts on the matter , and he could n't see de Tracy going against the majority of England 's nobility . |
| 16 | There was only one other place he could be : in his private apartments on the third floor . |
| 17 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 18 | They 'd completed the tour of his spacious offices on the waterfront at Msida . |
| 19 | He may have then reeled backwards and put his bloody hands on the wall to support himself before carrying on with his killing spree . |
| 20 | Roy wiped his bloody hands on his apron . |
| 21 | The Colonel laid his broad hands on the young man 's shoulders . |
| 22 | He had won eight events and nearly $2,000,000 in his 12 years on the US Tour . |
| 23 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 24 | Acquainted as I was with his peculiar notions on the subject , I could not help saying , ‘ My dear sir , you must be cold , thus exposed ’ , and he said ‘ No , I have plenty of clothes on my bed , a large fire in my room , and with this pure air passing freely to my lungs , I shall live a few hours longer : but to-day , I think , is my last . |
| 25 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
| 26 | Somehow , after calls for the resignation of the general secretary had been rejected because of support from his old shipmates on the north east coast , the union managed to take out a loan and to survive . |
| 27 | Berg 's use of a twelve-note theme and a " mechanical " form parodies the pseudo-XXXX scientific obsessions of the Doctor in his dietary experiments on Wozzeck a mere episode in the poor soldier 's decline . |
| 28 | Leaning forward , he rested his bronzed forearms on the scarred surface and toyed with a pen . |
| 29 | I 'll point those latter questions in the direction of Mr Davis to pick up in his concluding remarks on this discussion . |
| 30 | Breakfast over , Johnson returned to one of his favourite themes on the trip — Scotland 's economy . |