Example sentences of "with his [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | standing terrified by the door , I saw an officer lean forward on his horse and hit a neighbour with his truncheon above the eyes , heard the blow like the thump of wood on a swede turnip . |
| 2 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 3 | ( GUIL walks half the distance towards the PLAYER , stops with his foot over the coin . ) |
| 4 | He pushed the box with his foot behind the chair . |
| 5 | Secondly , his pre-match preparation was excellent with his faith in the Queen 's Gambit Declined rewarded by a solid score with black . |
| 6 | This culminated with his transfer to the Rolls Wood Group in 1990 . |
| 7 | ‘ I happened to mention that a mutual friend was going to Bibury with his girl for the weekend . |
| 8 | Damon said , ‘ I 'm taking the short-cut ’ , and dived in with his board by the rocks . |
| 9 | ‘ This is for people who have had a passing interest in Hendrix or have caught up with his music in the advent of the CD age . |
| 10 | He refers to the lithographed drawings as ‘ engravings ’ , and he used many short lines like an engraver scratching on copper ; pioneers are often conservative , and it was left to Edward Lear in his superb volume on parrots ( 1832 ) to exploit lithography , using bold flowing lines with his crayon on the stone . |
| 11 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , Saussure 's view of language excludes the referential dimension with his concept of the sign as the combination of signifier ( written or spoken ) and signified ( concept ) . |
| 12 | He tapped with his cane on the track as he walked , remembering the contempt in which he and his fellow Italians had been held . |
| 13 | Coupled with his backing for the Beeching report , however , it cost him his seat . |
| 14 | After all , Woosnam had said one day that Phil Ritson , a grey-haired South African coach , had from a distance spotted something amiss with his swing on the practice ground , offered some advice and then drifted away again . |
| 15 | Similarly , his patronage of Cerne was perhaps connected with his looting of the abbey during his campaign of conquest . |
| 16 | Pip changes from being content with his life at the beginning and not expecting much out of life until he goes to Miss Havisham 's and meets and falls in love with Estella . |
| 17 | Vogts , an expert angler blissfully at home with his squad on the banks of Loch Lomond , took a harpoon gun to the legislators for their idea of forming a European Champions League . |
| 18 | Many of you will be familiar with his correlation between the age of a hedge and the number of species it contains . |
| 19 | Pete lived with his Mum at the top of a big block of flats not far from the shops . |
| 20 | Vasey 's were not the be-all and end-all , she decided , then realised that , with not another word coming from her brother Sebastian , not so much as another postcard , much less a banker 's draft with his share of the mortgage , they were the only firm around that paid the sort of money she was earning . |
| 21 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 22 | The robber fled in a stolen car , with his accomplice at the wheel . |
| 23 | A collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs covering the Church calendar appeared in 1765 , together with his translation of the psalms and a translation of The Fables of Phaedrus . |
| 24 | Interspersed with his translation of the books of the Old Testament , which was never completed , were polemical works ; for in light of the reception of his New Testament he felt no need to restrain his views either on the English clergy or on the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 25 | And I 'll try somebody over here please if I could , the man with his elbow on the left like that , that 's right . |
| 26 | ‘ All sight if I walk up a bit ? he called to Marty , who was leaning forward with his elbow on the wheel and his open palm supporting his chin . |
| 27 | A killer who slept at night half a metre from Holly came with his story to the Englishman 's side . |
| 28 | Most people on the ‘ Carry Ons ’ seemed to think that it was quite nice having Ken around , which assuredly had a lot to do with his love of the series . |
| 29 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 30 | He always felt comfortable with his knowledge of the field and he was in command all the way . |