Example sentences of "on his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He lay on his back on the hard , polished surface , as she manipulated his half-aroused knob between her slim fingers . |
| 32 | Even as she was spluttering , Estelle straddled the older officer who was lying on his back on the floor . |
| 33 | He landed on his back on the bed which was in the centre of the chamber below , and it collapsed . |
| 34 | Fergus had been knocked backwards by the Lad 's spring ; he was lying on his back on the littered table , and the Lad was crouching over him , his eyes enormous , his face intent . |
| 35 | Alan lay on his back on the grass , hands clasped under his head , eyes closed . |
| 36 | Johnny was there , lying on his back under the boughs of the apple tree . |
| 37 | She watched William bank into a turn , narrowly miss another Jet Ski and plough into the wash of a water-ski boat , sending William — in a new variation on his repertoire of falls — somersaulting over the handlebars of the Jet Ski and flopping on his back into the water in a cloud of spray . |
| 38 | as if in slow motion she had seen Benny travel backwards through the air , landing heavily on his back among the rubbish that littered the end of the garden . |
| 39 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 40 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 41 | I shouted goodbye and soon followed at my own pace , leaving the sacred hitching post of the sun in the custody of two girls , a man lying on his back in the grass , the gaseosa-selling woman and a tethered goat . |
| 42 | Dan lay on his back in the grass with his bike alongside him , wheels still spinning . |
| 43 | For many nights Nahum lay on his back in the big double bed , knowing Sarah was weeping into the pillow beside him . |
| 44 | Stark was lying on his back in the motel room , his shirt open to reveal the bullet wound close to his navel . |
| 45 | Li Yuan lay on his back in the huge bed , staring up into the shadows ; the woman beside him was sleeping , her leg against his own , warm and strangely comforting . |
| 46 | Aware of this , he spins on his back in the manner of a break dancer and the spin gives him the momentum to strike at the legs of the attacker . |
| 47 | He 'd been beaten up , lied to , and left flat on his back in the Underground . |
| 48 | I says , what on earth 's that , I says , there 's something in that ditch , and I went back and I looked and here 's Old Bob lying on his back in the ditch and the water running round each side of his head . |
| 49 | He pounded this strange , blood-stained visitor to his stable , now lying on his back in the straw beneath him . |
| 50 | She was sitting beside her father who seemed to be asleep on his back in the grass . |
| 51 | Drawing on his experience of the BP culture changes , Mitchell concentrated on introducing a slicker , more financially-accountable way of working . |
| 52 | On 5th March a successful meeting of the Group was held in Glasgow when Mr F. J. Kennedy , Reporter to the Children 's Panel , Glasgow , gave a most interesting and inspired talk on his experience over the last few years . |
| 53 | So when he rehearsed the scene he based it on his experience at the chemist 's , an example of his always having to make contact with a real , lived emotion . |
| 54 | For instance , in the following extract Alun Jones ( 1980 ) argues for an in-school approach to in-service training based on his experience in the Industrial Training Service : |
| 55 | I can really see Cadfael rattling round in his black cloak , taking a short cut on his errands round the town . |
| 56 | When the Secretary of State made the equivalent announcement a year ago , I congratulated him on his promotion to the Cabinet . |
| 57 | Mr Buckley , 30 , underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain at the Royal Hallamshire hospital , Sheffield , after fracturing his skull in an accidental clash of heads with Plymouth defender Gary Poole in the fifth minute of the game at Rotherham , which ended 2–2 . |
| 58 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 59 | And waits for this one from Tufnell , pushes forward , and it 's hit on his pad outside the off stump possibly , loud appeals from everybody , there 's a rather high-pitched vocals , I think we 've got some young people in or a lot of ladies today . |
| 60 | Lord MacLean heard that MacIver had earlier refused to ‘ grass ’ on his accomplices in the alleged robbery . |