Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never run as a youngster ; cycling was his sport , then a bit of motorcycling after his service in the RAF . |
| 2 | After his conversation with the Zoo Curator Mr Wolski had gone down to the eagles and stared into Minch 's empty cage . |
| 3 | After his ordination to the priesthood by the Cardinal Vicar for Rome ( May 1899 ) , Eugenio himself studied law and then entered the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs ( now the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church ) , which handled relations between the Holy See and civil governments . |
| 4 | Just two days after his separation from the Princess of Wales was announced , he told an elderly well-wisher he was feeling ‘ not too bad ’ . |
| 5 | He borrowed a new T-shirt from Jazz and tried to look a bit cleaner after his night in the graveyard potting shed , determined to keep out of trouble till after the competition . |
| 6 | He discovered soon after his return to the city that she had refused two offers of marriage — one from a wealthy suitor — on the strength of the promise made to him at Bath , and that she continued to love him ‘ with an affection to the ardor of which my Deserts bear no proportion ’ . |
| 7 | In practice , the count 's absence in St Gilles and Provence allowed the boni homines gradually to accumulate powers and the town to acquire liberties , to a degree that shocked Raymond V after his return to the city in 1180 . |
| 8 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 9 | Although he was not restored to the bench after his return to the county , he remained an influential figure in local politics . |
| 10 | On the third evening after his return from the castle , he suddenly announced that he was going back to Kinghorn . |
| 11 | ‘ After his capture on the boat off Gdańsk , the torture began . ’ |
| 12 | Thereafter her life was devoted to ministering to him , reviving his poetic powers and love of nature after his withdrawal from the French revolution . |
| 13 | He has heard his counsel , under the procedure now generally adopted , making submissions to the judge after his conviction about the recommendation the judge will make as to the tariff period . |
| 14 | On 26 September 1406 he was consecrated at Mortlake after his promotion to the see of London . |
| 15 | He was a shy , lonely man who married the nearest thing to hand , which happened to be Nancy , the entertaining redhead who looked after his fingernails in the barber 's shop at the Dorchester . |
| 16 | When his effects were sent back to Forres , John Keith said little but took the medals his son had won in battle and late at night , after his session at the Mason 's Arms , walked to the Mill pond and threw all four of them in , ribbons and all . |
| 17 | Hartlepool 's £60,000 striker Andy Saville went out to celebrate only hours after his debut in the 2–0 derby win over Darlington at the weekend . |
| 18 | He could look after His protégé in the water as well as on dry land . |
| 19 | Sir Christopher designed most of the buildings himself , but left the design of ‘ The Castle , to the terrifically fashionable architect John Carr of York , who had been taken up by the Yorkshire gentry after his triumph with the design for the grandstand on the racecourse at Knavesmire . |
| 20 | " I find peace of mind acceptable only in winners and in those losers who have exhausted every means at their disposal , and who have peace of mind despite being losers " , noted Nizan in October 1939 , one month after his resignation from the party . " |
| 21 | In 460 , two years after his success at the Pythia , Arkesilas achieved the crown of human ambition by winning the chariot-race at Olympia , fulfilling Pindar 's prayer at the end of the Fifth Pythian . |
| 22 | After his success in the Britten production , a teacher at Oakfield School wrote a play for BBC schools radio and , during the next few years , the teenager appeared as actor or singer in hundreds of such broadcasts . |
| 23 | He knew he would have to go in search of extra newspaper before the pains came again , but first he must rest and regain his strength after his exertions in the bathroom . |
| 24 | He was tired after his journey to the river and his knees ached . |
| 25 | Doctors at Barton Hospital in Lake Tahoe are confident Philip Giles will make a full recovery after his fall from the ski-lift . |
| 26 | After his defection to the United States , Pacepa claimed that Eastern Bloc scientists had developed a method , known as RADU , of irradiating an enemy and inducing cancerous tumours . |
| 27 | He is distressed by what the Black Land has become , so soon after his departure for the Fields of Aarru . |
| 28 | The BNP ( British National Party ) , founded by John Tyndall in 1982 after his departure from the NF , long laboured in the wilderness ; in 1992 , it has become the most important of the extreme-right groupings in Britain but it nonetheless remains a peripheral phenomenon . |
| 29 | His cultural education was a process of bourgeois ideological indoctrination , yet his adult allegiance to socialism remained constant even after his departure from the PCF . |
| 30 | MARY BRYCE admits a certain sympathy for Norman Lamont after his treatment by the press over the past few months . |