Example sentences of "on his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 2 | husbands think their fault is they 've no money , when in all accounts he 's probably had more to spend on his luxuries than she 's had on food . |
| 3 | Uncle Bill had run a car for her on his company while he was alive but of course that had all stopped when he died . |
| 4 | In addition Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien 's son , who also worked in the company , was to provide certain security , but nothing turns on his involvement and I need not go into the details . |
| 5 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 6 | Tweed was doodling on his notepad as he spoke . |
| 7 | The Headmaster still had on his gown and he flapped in the wind like a bat as he charged across the grass . |
| 8 | Last month , the Federal Court , exasperated by the delays , ruled that the creditor 's petition could be served on his lawyers while he was in London . |
| 9 | The story is that the Volvo Masters is not on his schedule because it will not pay him to appear . |
| 10 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 11 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 12 | Philip waited , sitting on his bed till he heard the noise of the television stop , and his Mum and Dad come upstairs . |
| 13 | Five minutes later a plastic bag containing his wet , bloodstained pyjamas and a bottle of antiseptic fell on his bed and he heard Murray 's heavy footsteps retreat down the bare boards of the corridor . |
| 14 | He took Julie upstairs in his room and he he push her he push her on his bed and he he raped her . |
| 15 | Chief Inspector Kuhlmann of the Federal Police in Wiesbaden was chewing on his cigar as he read the Most Secret signal from London . |
| 16 | During the tour , Stout remembers that Charman and Gedge told Solowka to cut down on his drinking because it was starting to affect his playing . |
| 17 | It being of no use for the master to say that the merchandise belongs to the owner of the ship because he can not be believed upon his word ; and he is not believed on his word when he declares that the ship belongs to the bourgeois and that there is no point to the charter party for the above stated reasons . |
| 18 | Better than that was riding on his back while he went down on hands and knees and neighed like a horse . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | GrandPat did something wrong I suppose when you went down like a when he 's lying on his back because you do n't go down there very very fast . |
| 21 | But as he went in , something landed on his back and he felt strong , sinewy hands fasten round his throat . |
| 22 | Gareth Hall was an emergency left back and the fans were on his back when he miskicked a ball . |
| 23 | When I continued to scream at him he bared his upper teeth in an ingratiating grin and finally rolled on his back where he lay inert with half-closed eyes . |
| 24 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 25 | He 'd be on his back if he 'd had that amount of drink . |
| 26 | Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart . |
| 27 | The wader lived up to his name by conveying the mayor on his back as he waded into the Swale at the point where the boundary runs down the middle of the river . |
| 28 | The sun was on his back as he swung himself over her and her long legs parted in expectation . |
| 29 | I trespassed on his land and he was most kind about it and , as I said to Mrs Chamberlin , he is extremely interesting to talk to . |
| 30 | 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 . |