Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 2 | The student who finds difficulty in writing out his results may equally use audio-recording as a tool , perhaps later transcribing his account into written form after he has formulated it . |
| 3 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 4 | He was to commence night shifts and he was not looking forward to that , not with the strange thoughts and worries crowding his mind . |
| 5 | Forever after he 'll have to stay celibate to avoid polluting his people . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ a person who signs a document , and parts with it so that it may come into other hands , has a responsibility , that of the normal man of prudence , to take care what he signs , which , if neglected , prevents him from denying his liability under the document according to its tenor . |
| 7 | October 16 , 1969 Mr Sugden entered a defence denying his wife 's agency . |
| 8 | Denying his guilt to the last , he said he did n't bear his wife any ill will . |
| 9 | She took a perverse delight in denying his existence , in turning you against him . |
| 10 | In denying his humanity you become , in however diluted a form , like him when he denied the humanity of those he killed . |
| 11 | There was no denying his words had a soothing effect , but she did n't want to be soothed , she wanted him to accept her version of events . |
| 12 | And a fielder caught his big hit on the boundary , denying his team a win . |
| 13 | She should be firmly denying his claim to any rights where she was concerned , not arguing about his habit of using unsuitable endearments . |
| 14 | Chivvying his players into their coats and scarves , the Empire stage-manager herded them back to the coach . |
| 15 | But to show he was independent and a big boy he had lately taken to spelling his name with a small letter : martin . |
| 16 | The injury-prone versatile Northampton player lasted just 39 minutes before dislocating his shoulder and booking his place on the plane home . |
| 17 | Widnes blow RUGBY LEAGUE : Widnes and former Great Britain half back David Hulme , 27 , is out for the rest of the season after dislocating his shoulder in Sunday 's defeat at Featherstone . |
| 18 | WIGAN 'S Martin Dermott has given the new season the ‘ Big E ’ — by dislocating his elbow just weeks before kick off . |
| 19 | Elbowed out FOOTBALL : Ajax Amsterdam 's Swedish striker Stefan Pettersson looks set to miss the European Championships after dislocating his elbow in the UEFA Cup final victory over Torino . |
| 20 | Lord Rees-Mogg was launching his Council 's research study , Sex and Sexuality in Broadcasting . |
| 21 | But he returned to England before launching his campaign , almost certainly to marshal his resources . |
| 22 | He then moved to Oxford Polytechnic before launching his army career at Sandhurst . |
| 23 | NIGEL Short was today launching his fight to wrest the world chess crown from champion Garry Kasparov in the regal setting of the newly-refurbished Savoy Theatre in London . |
| 24 | The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) . |
| 25 | He was launching his report , the Lessons of Lockerbie , marking the first anniversary of the Pan Am jumbo jet blast . |
| 26 | Launching his bid for B.A.T Industries last year , Sir James Goldsmith argued that the tobacco-to-insurance group 's headquarters team subtracted , rather than added , value . |
| 27 | LAUNCHING his bid for the deputy leadership , Mr John Prescott was on his best behaviour yesterday . |
| 28 | Wyllie , on the point of launching his biography which immodestly refers to him as ‘ The Legend , ’ says he no longer wants the job and has not let his name be put forward . |
| 29 | After months of injury frustration , he took a definite up-swing on Tuesday by launching his season with the two-goal blast that wrecked Blackburn 's unbeaten run . |
| 30 | GEOFF Mulcahy , the soft-spoken chief executive and chairman-elect of Kingfisher , insisted last night that in launching his £460 million bid for Dixons , that revenge was the last thing in mind . |