Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd explained that his sister was on the pumps at the Smiling Service Filling Station , even though it was Good Friday . |
| 2 | His favourite was about the man who told a doctor : ‘ Yes . |
| 3 | This particular campaign may have failed but Paisley had demonstrated that his heart was in the right place . |
| 4 | His heart was in the right place . |
| 5 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 6 | His route was across the Niagara River above the falls . |
| 7 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 8 | Before she could quite close the door , his foot was in the jamb . |
| 9 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she snapped , and went to slam the door shut on him — then found that his foot was in the way . |
| 10 | He had to shave , grey bristles ; for Parker had gone bald suddenly ( and very young , a terrible fright , he had awoke one morning , all his hair was on the pillow ) and his wigs — he had three , short to long to shaggy ; the ploy , he hoped , visits to the barber — were black for blue . |
| 11 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 12 | His hair was on the long side too , and she was almost sure he bleached the ends . |
| 13 | When he woke up his hair was in the soup and his head on the rim of the plate , and his hostess had left the table . |
| 14 | Ferguson , for his part , can now look any supporter of his club in the eye and say that Gough having to commit the foul that debarred him from a Cup-tie verified the youngster 's ability to put an awkward pre-match situation out of his mind and play in a determined way that suggested his temperament was on the mend . |
| 15 | The Kritian boy looked even more slightly to his right , but his weight was on the other leg . |
| 16 | When his car was past the missile launchers , past the guards , he demanded speed . |
| 17 | His car was in the turning circle . |
| 18 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 19 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 20 | His apprenticeship was in the Big League , as a trouble-shooting whizz -kid at the Bank of America , and he then became Peat Marwick Mitchell 's youngest-ever partner in 1961 , aged only 30 . |
| 21 | The spirit of his meticulousness was in the pile of freshly laundered shirts and handkerchiefs at the foot of the bed . |
| 22 | He was a good soldier , but his marriage was on the rocks . |
| 23 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 24 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 25 | Since the departure of Miss Harker he had become more surly than before and his drinking was on the increase . |
| 26 | His fist was about the size of a sack of potatoes . |
| 27 | His ad was in the paper again today . |
| 28 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 29 | His beak was like the tip Of a rose thorn As he pecked for the cheese . |
| 30 | Ken sent a pastoral letter to his clergy asking them to collect money for their relief , and , though his stipend was among the lowest of those of the English bishops , himself contributed £4000 . |