Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tai chi chuan practitioner goes through his routine beside the calm and serenity of a lake , practising the steps of the short form of the exercise . |
| 2 | Paris says that he conducted himself here in a typically high-handed manner , whilst the Dunstable annalist writes of his boasting before the king and queen that he had the Welsh in the palm of his hand . |
| 3 | Alan is a doctor and he lives with his stepmother in the family house — up the hill towards Wood Lane . ’ |
| 4 | A braindamaged man who lives with his mother near the top of the tenement comes in at eleven o'clock , after sweeping out Seventh Street Pizza . |
| 5 | He stands with his weight on the right foot , his face lightly turned in that direction . |
| 6 | One of the most important of Freud 's contributions to the understanding of modern societies lies in his notion of the archaic heritage as an active element in social life . |
| 7 | The main interest of Kant 's ethics lies in his answers to the second and third sort of question . |
| 8 | Hoyle 's solution to the problem lies in his concept of the ‘ creative school ’ : a school whose organisational character is sufficiently ‘ open ’ and flexible to enable changes to its authority structures , its decision-making procedures , its professional relationships , and its pedagogical ‘ code ’ ( eg. from ‘ traditional ’ to ‘ progressive ’ ) . |
| 9 | The answer lies in his birthplace in the Ukraine and the reputation he enjoyed among dissidents and refusniks before his arrest and during his imprisonment . ’ |
| 10 | Gramsci 's most original contribution to Marxism lies in his analysis of the ways in which the state transforms coercive force into a structured more consensual domination to which he gives the name ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 11 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 12 | The famous Jalal-zade Mustafa Celebi ( Celalzade Mustafa : d. 975/1567 ) writes in his history of the reign of Selim I , the or that when the Holy Cities came under Ottoman protection with the conquest of Egypt , the Ottoman ulema approached Piri Pasa , mentioned here as the kazasker of the Arab lands , and suggested that kadis be sent from Rum ( that is , in effect , from among the Ottoman ulema ) to the two cities . |
| 13 | When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House . |
| 14 | It is the particular organisation of movement in time , space and intensity that a choreographer achieves through his grouping of the various types of steps . |
| 15 | The way to resolve this necessary dilemma is surely not to discredit spatial policy altogether but to contextualise it , to draw out the links between the locally specific and the internationally ubiquitous , as Patrick Bond describes in his description of the campaign for the community control of capital in Baltimore ( chapter 8 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Keith 's really mad keen to go , ’ Paul says from his cushion on the floor . |
| 17 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 18 | Srisa Chandra Vasu says in his preface to the Ashyadhyayi , ‘ What the geometry of Euclid has done towards the development of the Western intellect , the Ashtadhyayi fulfils in India ’ . |
| 19 | The wording of 72 ( contrasting ‘ states of consciousness ’ with ‘ dispositions ’ ) reminds one of what Gilbert Ryle says in The Concept of Mind , and the wording of 101 ( ‘ We can not separate his ‘ thinking ’ from his activity' ) of what he says in his contribution to The Human Agent but Ryle and Wittgenstein , it seems to me , agree only on the negative point , that thinking is not an accompaniment of speaking and acting . |
| 20 | Moreover , the story of Cnut 's presence in Canterbury before and after the Rome trip , and of the storm and near shipwreck , also occurs in his account of the miracles worked by St Augustine . |
| 21 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 22 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 23 | In this production which is guaranteed to entertain any audience from five to ninety five , all the music is live , played by the creatures that James meets on his journey into the Peach . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Having got back to bed for a few hours , at 0800 Captain Moore arrives at his office in the RMP Headquarters , which is housed in the 1936 Olympic Stadium Barracks , and by mid-morning is feeling a bit smug about the noticeable dent in the paperwork on his desk . |
| 26 | He refers throughout his Gospel to the Pharisees and Sadducees , two very different groups , as though they were very close . |
| 27 | Mr Day was threatened with an injunction last year when he completed the final draft of his book , most of which deals with his career in the Royal Marines and as a civil servant during the Emergency in Malaya . |
| 28 | Bush had promised tax cuts in his State of the Union Speech delivered to Congress on Jan. 28 [ see above ] . |
| 29 | But when he discovers from his review of the precedents that mothers already have a legal right to compensation for emotional injury suffered on a direct view of the accident , and therefore that drivers must already insure against causing emotional damage in those circumstances , the question of insurance costs becomes more complex . |
| 30 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |