Example sentences of "on his [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press and the experts had put the monkey on his back that he could n't win a major , that he seemed to be ‘ choking on Sundays ’ . |
| 2 | Oh , for that uncomfortable bed on his yacht that he now resolved to be aboard this very evening , before any such vote could be called . |
| 3 | Julian , although knowing through putting them on his arms that they were of different lengths , said they were ‘ the same ’ . |
| 4 | As Creon , Alexander West , after a blustering , bellowing , finger-pointing performance , had the veins standing out so prominently on his forehead that we feared the explosion of blood . |
| 5 | Harry was so intent on his work that he did not hear the door open . |
| 6 | It was while he was on his way that he was overtaken by the French army at Crécy-en-Ponthieu where , on 26 August 1346 , the first of the major land battles of the war was fought . |
| 7 | It was on his head that you returned to the beat on time . |
| 8 | to shoot his loaf , I do n't think he 's brushed up on his cream that he dropped look |
| 9 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 10 | He was holding her hand and staring down at her with an extraordinary expression on his face that she had never seen before . |
| 11 | Suddenly she released all the tenseness from her muscles , he relaxed his hold slightly , a surprised expression on his face that she should capitulate so easily , and she lifted her head with cold pride in every line of her body . |
| 12 | They drove in silence , and when she dared to glance across at him she found an expression on his face that she could not read at all . |
| 13 | There was an expression on his face that she could n't quite fathom , so she brought the conversation smartly back to business . |
| 14 | But she had said nothing , and she knew from the look on his face that he was thinking she was still bearing a grudge from the incident in the storeroom the previous night . |
| 15 | I could tell immediately by the look on his face that he knew about Granny , for news travelled fast in our district and nothing was secret for long . |
| 16 | She saw by the look on his face that he was half afraid of her . |
| 17 | She knew by the expression on his face that he was hers , and she was confident her sexual ability could keep him happy until she was ready to move on . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't be serious ! ’ she said , although she could see by the look on his face that he was deadly serious . |
| 19 | She halted , hesitated , flicked a glance at him and saw from the surprised look on his face that he was putting his own interpretation on why she was scurrying to her room . |
| 20 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |
| 21 | But such was the disappointment on his face that I was compelled to agree that we would enjoy such a picnic , which indeed is a delicious meal in other circumstances — at Henley during summer , or at Glyndebourne on a good afternoon — but in the middle of the South African veld , on our way to Rhodesia , its incongruity would have occurred to anyone except to a British diplomat . |
| 22 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 23 | Mr Ridley 's ‘ mindedness ’ to allow Foxley Wood depended on his view that it was a sounder way of ensuring Hampshire 's share of new housing in the South-east than the county 's own thinking , which assumed finding dozens of smaller sites . |
| 24 | He hoped , an instant before the impact , that the gambit of the fire was not going to spoil the gambit of the Normans , and saw from a distant glitter far on his right that it was not . |
| 25 | Well , Mercer 's father had exactly the same rinds of dead flesh on his hands that we saw in the Delta . |
| 26 | I reckon he has got a law case on his hands that he thinks he might lose . |
| 27 | If I am not able to visit the Western Isles in the near future , I shall certainly act on his suggestion that we should send a team of Scottish Office officials and that will be arranged as soon as is reasonably practicable . |
| 28 | Where , for example , a tenant covenants " to keep in repair the demised property and the windows , window frames , boilers and air conditioning plant " it might be successfully argued on his behalf that he is not liable to repair the doors because they were not mentioned in the catalogue . |
| 29 | Difficult though it would undoubtedly be for him I do not understand it to be said on his behalf that it would be impossible . |
| 30 | Mr Tughan said ‘ He was , without mercy , executed even as his mother pleaded on his behalf that she might be taken instead of her boy . |