Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [prep] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett whirled his big Welsh dagger , dug his spurs in and , shouting at the rest to follow him , broke through and galloped from the trees where the ambush had taken place . |
| 2 | It was largely due to him that , through his activities on and off the field , cricket in Thailand became established and flourished . |
| 3 | Nowadays , enjoys his outings with and her children who he has more or less adopted as his own grandchildren . |
| 4 | They had all been inhibited from plain speaking by the lavish hospitality , the fresh scampi with avocado had been too ‘ mucked about ’ for her taste , while that dreadful black man had insisted on telling her all about his times in and out of the ring with ‘ Big Frank ’ ( ‘ a lovely suit of clothes ’ ) , interrupting himself only to raise his glass of pink wine to Sir Ralph who had , in his opinion , ‘ done us proud ’ . |
| 5 | Given Duchamp 's long residence in America , and his contacts with and influence on American art , I can see why he might be included , although most of the time he was a presence on the scene here he was n't working publicly . |
| 6 | Philip put his brakes on and skidded . |
| 7 | J. was a good dancer having been to dancing classes as a small boy , and enjoyed them , in contrast to his younger brother who dug his heels in and absolutely refused to do anything so sissy . |
| 8 | went to have a look in his bedrooms like and I they 're all done out in pine , every bedroom is done out in pine . |
| 9 | McDunn sucks his lips in and looks pained . |
| 10 | Creevey was there during Napoleon 's ‘ Hundred Days ’ and left a vivid account of his experiences before and during the battle of Waterloo . |
| 11 | He would be well advised to insist on a written indemnity in that respect to cover both intentional and accidental holding out , and , as regards the latter , to cover his accidentally holding himself out as a partner so long as that is done in the course of carrying out his duties for and in the interests of the firm . |
| 12 | Matthew , the six-year-old , leans against Howard 's chair , scuffing his feet about and reading from his Janet and John book , On We Plod . |
| 13 | Doing his best to stay awake , he chatted to Mills until satisfied that the other was convinced of his academic credentials and then , to get rid of him before Syrian George arrived to transcribe the night 's tapes and give the game away , sent him over to see Hurley , who wanted to know if Mills , in the course of his travels in and out of Lebanon for Newsweek , would like to shoot a few pictures for the DEA . |
| 14 | Philip put his glasses on and stared at the boy . |
| 15 | He puts his glasses on and looks at it . |
| 16 | As I stepped past them Iain had his glasses on and was peering at a diagram the engineer had roughed out in his notepad . |
| 17 | Below this he set out his arguments for and against . |
| 18 | Also his journeys to and from work would have been considerably longer and more expensive . |
| 19 | Saturday night and stayed with his friends like and I , I and I did n't like it , I could I was lying in bed I thought I heard noises and all and I had all the windows |
| 20 | Schumacher has a sure-footedness to his moves in and out of the cockpit , but it has to be said that Schumacher 's Rug is not just a Nightmare , it 's a German Nightmare — efficient , expansionist , first to the sunbed . |
| 21 | Well , what about Michael went on his arms during and absolutely wrecked his arm ! |
| 22 | The shifty character was getting extremely agitated , waving his arms about and almost bursting into tears . |
| 23 | On 17 June 1952 a Fellow of Magdalene College walked down Trinity Street in Cambridge and was suddenly aware of the regius professor of divinity waddling ahead of him and throwing his arms about and muttering gloomily to himself , ‘ Hell ! |
| 24 | ‘ Seen the crowd ? ’ asked the Duke , buckling on a wooden sword and striding up and down the narrow space , waving his arms about and muttering to himself . |
| 25 | The idea made him throw his arms about and chuckle . |
| 26 | The Chairman waved his arms about and the orchestra sorted through sheet-music . |
| 27 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |
| 28 | The technical services representative for International Paint *Gulf ) is based in Bahrain and when an ice rink opened there last year Russell got his skates on and went along . |
| 29 | At his farewell lunch was presented with retirement gifts on behalf of his colleagues by and gifts from the company by production director , . |
| 30 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |