Example sentences of "[noun] on his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother 's , my brother 's doing a handsta er sitting on his head on the chair . |
| 2 | ‘ If we do n't make the final , Cy Gilette [ the umpire ] will have our blood on his hands for the rest of his life . ’ |
| 3 | The second , and less obvious , was Lindsay Anderson 's film This Sporting Life where Hartnell took the role of an ageing rugby talent scout ; a somewhat sad and reflective character who looked back with fondness on his years in the game . |
| 4 | The author with Lord Gibson and Lord Drogheda as Lord Gibson 's supporters on his introduction to the House of Lords in 1975 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his life , when giving a talk on his career at the Royal College of Art , Minton was asked what had been the most difficult factor to contend with . |
| 7 | By Jan. 21 Boudiaf had received letters of congratulation on his appointment from the heads of state of Morocco , Tunisia , Libya , Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | Murr escaped an assassination attempt on his way to the March 20 Cabinet meeting where the plan to disband the militias was to be approved . |
| 9 | The colony 's authorities are privately furious Newall was again able to make an attempt on his life under the noses of his guards . |
| 10 | It could n't be just her intrusion on his evening with the Taylors , surely ? |
| 11 | Last nights theft took place when an antiques dealer stopped to change a wheel on his car on the hard shoulder of the M Six near the Keele service station in Staffordshire and was attacked by three men who escaped in a white van . |
| 12 | Such recall led the individual to a deeper understanding of himself and of the traumatic effect on his life of the hitherto ‘ forgotten ’ incidents . |
| 13 | There had been early ties between Aragon ( consisting loosely of Aragon , the county of Barcelona and parts of Languedoc and Provence ) and the papacy , and in 1204 , alarmed by the prospect of the Albigensian Crusade and the effect on his vassals in the Languedoc , Peter II submitted his kingdom to the pope . |
| 14 | I can really see Cadfael rattling round in his black cloak , taking a short cut on his errands round the town . |
| 15 | There are a number of biographies of Stanley Baldwin , the Conservative leader ; but none of them really casts much light on his attitude to the crisis . |
| 16 | Although the jury heard eight hours of videotaped testimony by Reagan [ see p. 37241 ] , the former President was often confused and vague about operational details and did little to shed any further light on his involvement in the affair . |
| 17 | A man walking through the carriage on his way to the corridor advises , ‘ Blame the Government . ’ |
| 18 | He is buried in the churchyard , and Thomas Hardy and Mr Gosse visited the Dorset poet on his deathbed in the rectory in 1886 . |
| 19 | We can turn a blind eye to some of it , but the point is always reached when he goes too far , and intervention is required , usually only in the form of American attacks by aircraft on his offences in the em , areas where he 's not supposed to penetrate . |
| 20 | Kooyonga 's jockey Warren O'Connor has no doubts on his racehorse of the year whatever happens today . |
| 21 | When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696 , he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man , and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory , Lord Cheyne . |
| 22 | Ironically , the autarkic model foisted by Stalin on his charges in the 1940s to maintain their isolation from one another and their dependency upon him had , by the 1960s , become something of a rallying point for regimes who in no other sphere enjoyed any tangible measure of independence . |
| 23 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 24 | Though in the end his rights prevailed , the dispute had long repercussions on his control over the counts and castellans of the demesne . |
| 25 | Barry fits a visor on his colt for the first time in the Ladbrokes Ayr Gold Cup in a bid to cover all the angles . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | He walked with a limp , and had you not known better you could have mistaken the sores and scabs on his face for the kind of wounds worn by down-and-outs in Cardboard City . |
| 28 | While the men put on their gear Turner checked the position of the 17th green on his map of the course and pin-pointed the target area on his OS map . |
| 29 | the fixation of the boy on his mother in the transition period from the oral to the anal phase , that is , in the transition from the purely receptive interests of the child to his first productive efforts , may have a fatal outcome ; it may leave behind a disposition to manic-depressive affections . |
| 30 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |