Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I will do whatever is necessary to preserve the value of the pound , ’ Mr Smith said , reaffirming his commitment to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 3 | Today they are commonplace ; the Lord Chancellor answering in the Lords , and a Junior Minister representing his Department in the elected House . |
| 4 | It means another big question mark against the Ireland future of Moran , the 37-year-old Blackburn Rovers defender who has twice made comebacks after announcing his retirement from the international arena . |
| 5 | Fond as the rector was of Harold Shoosmith , he found himself disliking his intrusion into the present conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ Kick me again , ’ said Georgiades , keeping his voice at the gentle , conversational level , ‘ and I will kick your balls so hard that they will fly out of your backside . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's me Moll , Yanto , ’ he answered with an urgent whisper , still keeping his eye on the other bedroom window . |
| 8 | Wetherall then stumbled and fell over on the appalling pitch in the centre of the 6 yard box ( as he was correctly keeping his eye on the incoming ball ) . |
| 9 | He paused only to smooth down his unruly black hair and tuck his vest into his pants before groping his way down the long dark corridor to the kitchen door . |
| 10 | The Colonel was getting loquacious , relating his part in the anti-criminal campaign in malai-land two years back . |
| 11 | " It 's been awhile Michael , " she said , her accent broad and sharp , pronouncing his name in the Irish language as Mee-hawl . |
| 12 | Unfortunately he damaged his knee in Sweden and underwent surgery to cure the problem during the summer , delaying his return to the Premier League . |
| 13 | Further criticism came from foreign commentators who found his espousal of Western ideas too selective by far , taking him to task for his autocratic style , for underpinning his regime with the repressive Savak security apparatus , his sybaritic leisure-image — notably featuring snow and sun at St Moritz — and his failure to uproot corruption in his entourage . |
| 14 | ( The ‘ Editorial Assistant ’ apologises to Mr Hearse for omitting his name from the corresponding article in the last Journal . ) |
| 15 | It is generally assumed first , that this ‘ ceremonial recognition of his son as king in his own lifetime was something new ’ ( although Aethelred of Mercia , for example , is said to have appointed Coenred as his heir ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) , second , that it was the first royal anointing in England ( though reservations have been expressed as to whether Ecgfrith was anointed or , if he was , whether he was the first ) , and , third , that Offa was basing his action on the recent papal consecration in 781 of the Frankish princes , Pippin and Louis , sons of Charlemagne ( though Byzantine precedents are also possible ) . |
| 16 | Richard was crying now , pressing his face into the deep folds of her skirt . |
| 17 | This is Mould , for the first time since his epic ‘ Workbook ’ album , recapturing his sense of The Definitive : the last word in love songs and the full stop after heartbreak . |
| 18 | A pensioner walking his dog on the other side of the street quickened his pace , obviously not wanting to be there when the men in white coats came for me . |
| 19 | Therefore he can not be acting ultra vires and unlawfully by applying his view of the domestic law in reaching his decision . |
| 20 | ‘ But … ’ she started to protest , but he was already walking away from her , weaving his way through the seated audience , shouldering past the standing groups . |
| 21 | During the winter of 1936–7 , Franco therefore brought the right-wing militias firmly under army control and set about establishing his authority over the political parties themselves . |
| 22 | Mr Yeltsin meanwhile sent a message to John Major expressing his gratitude for the Prime Minister 's support and understanding . |
| 23 | However , Slovak Premier Jan Carnogursky dismissed the idea on Aug. 16 , expressing his satisfaction with the existing government coalition , while welcoming any support the HZDS might give to government economic policy . |
| 24 | Simon was not reticent in expressing his dislike for the Jaguar-driving members who had previously snubbed him . |
| 25 | He rode ahead into the mist , picking his way across the encumbered ground . |
| 26 | Vic nods his thanks , turns left , then right again , picking his way through the broad , tree-lined residential streets with practised ease . |
| 27 | Barely a minute later they were two up , this time David McCallam picking his spot in the bottom left-hand corner following a pin-point centre from Magee . |
| 28 | He was twenty-one — a man — and it was high time he started living his life to the full . |
| 29 | As a captain with literary leanings , he 'll no doubt be saving his version for the eventual book of memoirs . |
| 30 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |