Example sentences of "an [noun] on his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 2 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 3 | Twenty eight year old Andrew Hayton approached at around sixty miles an hour on his Yamaha motorbike but did not slow down . |
| 4 | In the event , they entrusted Alexander Mackendrick with a colourful story , Sammy Going South ( 1963 , A Boy Ten Feet Tall in US ) , about the journey of a small boy , orphaned by an air-raid on his Port Said home , who crosses Africa on his own to find relatives in the south . |
| 5 | In 1971 he was also angered by a visit made by the Shah 's sister Princess Ashraf , to China , which he felt was an intrusion on his turf . |
| 6 | In particular , as the journalist , Mr. Clark states , they have an effect on his daughter , who is 13 . |
| 7 | Although Gordonstoun and Australia had an effect on his character , it was at Cambridge that he began to develop into the man he now is . |
| 8 | Today 's four withdrawals , coming on top of earlier drop-outs by Sheffield Wednesday 's Paul Warhurst and Arsenal 's Alan Smith , leave Taylor short of cover but will not have too drastic an effect on his team strategy for the Group Two game . |
| 9 | However , Mohtashemi 's election to the Majlis in the December 1989 by-elections [ see pp. 37137-38 ] represented an attempt on his part to make a political comeback . |
| 10 | There was an attempt on his life while he was bathing , but the would-be assassin was foiled by the shrill , warning cry of a kingfisher and the quick action of the bath girl , Zuzana . |
| 11 | The colony 's authorities are privately furious Newall was again able to make an attempt on his life under the noses of his guards . |
| 12 | All he knew was that he had been inadequately protected , and that an attempt on his life had been thwarted by the merest accident . |
| 13 | The CDU 's choice of Schäuble , 49 , who had been confined to a wheelchair since an attempt on his life in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was the last of a series of leadership elections by all four main parties in November . |
| 14 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |
| 15 | A jealous husband using an axe on his wife . |
| 16 | Perhaps West who had been very conscious of social needs , had had an influence on his thoughts on such matters . |
| 17 | Too often the reason that a project fails is that the team leader enters a department to be met by its manager who sees someone only equal , if not subordinate , in status and , fearing an incursion on his empire , makes it nigh impossible to achieve progress . |
| 18 | ‘ I did his personal tax return and kept an eye on his investments . ’ |
| 19 | By following Andy Kyle he could keep just ahead of the final match , make a progress round the entire course and keep an eye on his stake . |
| 20 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 21 | ‘ If he had any sense he 'd stay here and keep an eye on his daughter , ’ I quipped back . |
| 22 | He helps Pancks , whose landlord he is , to establish Mr Dorrit 's claim to his inheritance , and while Clennam is imprisoned in the Marshalsea he keeps an eye on his affairs ; Anastasia , his unprepossessing , middle-aged daughter , who cherishes the recollection of once having won an action for breach of promise . |
| 23 | Mary organized the plates and kept an eye on his carving . |
| 24 | You 'll have to keep an eye on his mouth . |
| 25 | You 'll have to keep an eye on his mouth today . |
| 26 | He tries to confine his searching to the area around the nest , presumably so that he can keep an eye on his partner . |
| 27 | Why did he want an article on his hacienda ? |
| 28 | In other incidents ( i ) Sam Chand , a PAC activist , was among six people assassinated in a bomb explosion in Botswana on April 23 ; ( ii ) his brother Ishmael Chand died in an accident on his way to the funeral ; and ( iii ) the secretary of the PAC internal wing , Benny Alexander , and other PAC members travelling with him were seriously injured in a car crash in the northern Cape on May 3 . |
| 29 | I 'm sure I remember Offiah doing a lap of honour with an ice-pack on his leg after Wigan won the Premiership last season . |
| 30 | Back in 1986 the president accused the Ewes of mounting a failed coup against him , claiming that the plot involved Ghana 's leader , Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ; Mr Rawlings is an Ewe on his mother 's side ( his father was Scottish ) . |