Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Don Peters was on his feet on the second day of the meeting of the European Planning Committee , explaining his plan to rejuvenate the ailing British vehicle division , Fred Clasper was also on his feet setting in motion his scheme to put the final nail in its coffin . |
| 2 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 3 | Mr Shamir , who now leads a caretaker government , must play for time while doing his utmost to talk the religious parties out of making a deal with Labour . |
| 4 | ACTOR Tom Conti is doing his bit to help the ailing economy by buying only British goods . |
| 5 | Here , as in the Odes generally , Horace favours a method of collage or juxtaposition , letting his audience make the semantic connections between images . |
| 6 | THE post-match critic who wondered if Hibs had come off the team bus moving backwards might have been guilty of allowing his cynicism to get the better of him , but there can be no-one at Easter Road this morning able to derive any satisfaction from the side 's performance at Ibrox . |
| 7 | She stepped back with remarkable alacrity , but Jackson was quicker , using his foot to halt the closing door . |
| 8 | ‘ The filmic device of a discarnate Belushi reviewing his life allows the dead performer ( and Hollywood collectively ) a right of reply ; unfortunately it also makes the film ludicrous . ’ |
| 9 | He pushed himself upright , shaking his head to make the wheeling stars go away . |
| 10 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 11 | It is interesting that Lord Denning in concluding his interview chose the dying words of John of Gaunt from Shakespeare 's Richard II to foretell the decline of Britain into what he believes is a ‘ tenement ’ of Europe . |