Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pushed him away , but she was laughing in relief , and he responded by taking a firmer hold , laughing with her , briefly forgetting the soreness of his back and the tortures in his mind . |
| 2 | The little man 's eyes widened and the corners of his mouth drooped . |
| 3 | There was a deep crease between his nose and the corners of his mouth , as if he was in the habit of sneering . |
| 4 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 5 | His fingers would bend and there was still some strength in them , but his palm would n't uncurl and the tendons to his thumb had become shortened , giving him problems whenever he tried to pick anything up . |
| 6 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 7 | The doctor spread his hands and the rings on his fingers sparkled . |
| 8 | For Frederick II at Eger in 1213 ( as had Otto at Neuss ) , repudiated the whole imperial programme and the ambitions of his father , Henry VI , renouncing claims to all the land between Radicofani and Ceprano , the March of Ancona , the duchy of Spoleto , the Matildine lands , the county of Bertinoro , the exarchate of Ravenna , Pentapolis and the Massa Trabaria . |
| 9 | The second marquess inherited the titles and the estates of his maternal grandfather on the death of the fifth/sixth Earl of Dumfries in 1803 and those of his paternal grandfather on the death of the first Marquess of Bute in 1814 . |
| 10 | He opened his coat and got out the ten-shilling note from his wallet and the coins from his trouser pocket . |
| 11 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |
| 12 | As Ladbroke Grove is left behind , the chimney of the old brick kiln at the now demolished Ruston Mews can be seen , the street once called Rillington Place where Christie the multiple murderer lived , killed women and immured them in his garden and the cupboards of his house . |
| 13 | Professor Dolley argued that raids on western England in the 980s were partly the responsibility of Scandinavians who had settled in Ireland , and that Æthelred 's expedition into Cumberland in 1000 , and the activities of his fleet in the Irish Sea , were in all likelihood the result of provocation in that area . |
| 14 | His hair was rumpled , and the toggles on his duffel coat were done up wrong . |
| 15 | Behind the indecision lay a youth torn in one direction by the family business , not least perhaps his father 's shadow hanging over him ; and the preferences of his mind and ever prolific imagination in the other . |
| 16 | Tran Van Hieu 's eyes glittered and the muscles of his jaw tightened . |
| 17 | He was n't going to be as heavily built as his father , but was lithe and agile , and she loved to watch him going after gulls ' eggs out by Blackbottle Rocks , his long legs braced against the cliff face and the muscles in his neck and back standing out like cords as he heaved himself up over a ledge . |
| 18 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 19 | ‘ It can take two to three years before an agent is in a position to provide accurate intelligence on ops and the movements of his colleagues , bombs and weapons . ’ |
| 20 | As is well known , Dick Crossman , who did not always conform to the rules , had maintained a most complete — if not invariably accurate — account of the Cabinet meetings that he attended and the discussions with his colleagues . |
| 21 | He left behind him a town in uproar and the foundations of his fame , for he had been recognised while in Whitehaven and his identity had been confirmed by the Irish deserter . |
| 22 | And the figures in his Bible are n't Centaur figures , they are Monotype Plantin figures resized to fit with it and work with it . |
| 23 | One of my constituents was in touch with my colleague , the European Member of Parliament , Ken Collins , who chairs the European Parliament 's Committee on the Environment , Public Health and Consumer Protection , to seek his advice on what the European Commissioner had done and the reasons behind his action . |
| 24 | Even if the media did inflate the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , even if Callaghan was unlucky when the Scottish National Party chose to commit political suicide in revenge for the failure of Labour 's devolution proposals , by supporting the Tories ' ‘ no confidence ’ motion in the Commons , Callaghan 's procrastination and the effects of his autocratic dealings with the unions were surely the main factors weakening the credibility of Labour between 1978 and 79 . |
| 25 | In a stand-up scenario , as the crazy newsagent , Merton was on form ( although rarely at his very best ) , but put him in one of his sketches and the limitations of his acting are obvious . |
| 26 | Rachmaninov was 17 when he wrote this work and the germs of his later facility and gift for appealing melody are already very evident . |
| 27 | We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan . |
| 28 | Lothar , the moment Pippin had joined him , flung down the gauntlet : he alone was to have imperial power , he said , and the interests of his brothers no longer mattered to him . |
| 29 | At one point , however , they did get around to Marius Steen and the circumstances of his death . |
| 30 | In June the duke and the heirs of his body were granted the Clifford barony in the West Riding , consisting of Skipton and Marton in Craven and associated land . |