Example sentences of "was [verb] his [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 2 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 3 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 4 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 5 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 6 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 7 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 8 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 9 | More 's eloquence has set the tone for much historical writing on the subject , but while one should not deny that enclosures created a good deal of suffering , one should also remember that More was exaggerating his points for the sake of effect . |
| 10 | Shafgar ( 4.1 ) was showing his paintings to the teacher . |
| 11 | I , I think so , because oh it 's still difficult to interpret Dickie 's stipulations sometimes , but he was waving his hands towards the scorer . |
| 12 | He was toasting his feet on the coal fired Aga |
| 13 | Tuppe was toasting his feet by the fire . |
| 14 | One of his earliest escapades there was to take his students to the Leaning Tower and drop weights from it , thereby disproving one of Aristotle 's dicta on motion . |
| 15 | ‘ He was leaning his elbows on the table . ’ |
| 16 | Malcolm was digging his nails into the palm of his hand . |
| 17 | His public voice was richer in its Southern tones than normal and he was delivering his words in the slow , measured cadences that he normally employed on the floor of the Senate . |
| 18 | He had folded up his sheets and blankets and was polishing his boots by the time reveille sounded . |
| 19 | Off-duty police constable David Crowe was visiting his parents in the town 's Coalhall Avenue in October last year when fire broke out in the house next door . |
| 20 | The priest was offering his fingers to the policeman who poured some water over them . |