Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [be] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 2 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |
| 3 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 4 | His opponent was clumsily getting to his feet as Fleury snatched a violin from a rack of worm-eaten instruments ( the survivors of an attempt by the Collector to start a symphony orchestra in the cantonment ) , snapped it over his knee and leapt on to the sepoy 's back , at the same time whipping the violin strings tightly round the sepoy 's neck and dragging on them like reins . |
| 5 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 6 | In another year , at almost any other time , Adam would have touched his father or more probably his mother for a loan , but in June 1976 his father was barely speaking to him , and his mother would have been scared to go against her husband . |
| 7 | His colleague was already talking to Nigel Cramer , who had spent the night at Scotland Yard . |
| 8 | And Preston knew that William knew what the rest of them had known , or suspected , for some months : that he and his mother were never going to America and that the Master Sergeant was never coming back . |