Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 2 | Morton Smith had disclosed his findings about the early church in The Secret Gospel , following it with his controversial portrait in Jesus the Magician . |
| 3 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 4 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 5 | or , Thomas ( c. 1784–1818 ) , prizefighter , was born a Virginia slave , and is reputed to have won his freedom in the American prize-ring . |
| 6 | BRITISH hospital manager David Brown , sentenced to 50 lashes in Saudi Arabia for swearing at staff , has won his appeal against the punishment . |
| 7 | BRITISH hospital manager David Brown , sentenced to 50 lashes with a bamboo cane in Saudi Arabia for swearing at staff , has won his appeal against the punishment . |
| 8 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 9 | Dad had fallen and cracked his head on the fireplace . |
| 10 | When he slipped in that muck he could have cracked his head against the side of the lift shaft ! |
| 11 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 12 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
| 13 | The French General , knowing he had earned his pat on the head from the Emperor , shouted derision at their retreat . |
| 14 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 15 | But Mr Major felt that the man who brought down Mrs Thatcher had earned his passage to the department of his choice . |
| 16 | Mr Kenneth Clarke has earned his promotion to the Home Office , and has the combination of brains and toughness to undertake the huge task of reforming the police . |
| 17 | And no one doubts that he has earned his place among the sport 's leading players . |
| 18 | Gomez had earned his status through the calm weight of his personality as much as by his physical strength and the inevitable accuracy of his firepower . |
| 19 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 20 | He chuckled to himself as he drove , and had forgotten his worries by the time he had hauled two armfuls of grocery supplies up to his apartment . |
| 21 | Two months before the meeting Mann had resigned his seat in the Lok Sabha in protest at , among other things , the government 's refusal to allow a state legislature to be elected . |
| 22 | Tom Walkinshaw , chairman of the BRDC and their trading subsidiary Silverstone Circuits Ltd before the deal was made , has since been sacked and has resigned his membership of the Drivers ' Club . |
| 23 | The list of around forty possible members includes Mauricio Kagel , Andrzej Wajda , and Göyrgi Ligeti ( the latter having recently resigned his membership of the Berlin Akademie ) . |
| 24 | The list of around forty possible members includes Mauricio Kagel , Andrzej Wajda , and Göyrgi Ligeti ( the latter having recently resigned his membership of the Berlin Akademie ) . |
| 25 | A forcible demonstration of Castro 's changed attitude was given on 21 October when he ordered the arrest of his former companion-in-arms , the charismatic Major Huber Matos , Commander of Camaguey Province ( an area where there was significant resistance to the new regime ) , who had resigned his commission in the Rebel Army in protest at the increasing Communist influence in the revolution . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd dropped his rifle in the Abbey . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 28 | And Isle of Muck had inoculated his tenants against the smallpox at a cost of two shillings and sixpence per head . |
| 29 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 30 | He had succeeded his father on the board of the Great Western Railway , although not in the chairmanship . |