Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The younger of the pair , Joseph noticed , held his arms unnaturally high across his tiny chest , and looking closer he saw a little bulge rumpling and moving beneath his silk tunic . |
| 2 | Peering inside he found a half-naked couple locked together in the backseat . |
| 3 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 4 | By doing so he replaced a philosophical speculation with a detailed description of a process , supported by an abundance of evidence , that could be tested and verified ; and the reality of evolution could no longer be denied . |
| 5 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 6 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 7 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 8 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
| 9 | In doing so he exposes the pre-acquisition write-down , the timing of recognition of deferred consideration and the impact of disposals . |
| 10 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 11 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |