Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of this employment was walking over mountains and fells seeking sites for making his drawings or pursuing his botanic and geological interests . |
| 2 | Fr Leonardo Boff , a renowned Brazilian liberation theologist condemned by the Vatican to a year 's silence in 1985 [ see p. 33823 ] , was banned by the Vatican with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 , from preaching or pursuing his theological teaching at the university in Petrópolis , 50 km north-east of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 3 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 4 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 5 | ‘ So how long have you been waiting ? ’ she enquired , refusing to give him the satisfaction of rising to his bait or confirming his accurate character diagnosis . |
| 6 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 7 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 8 | Or maturing his felonious little plans , |
| 9 | The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen . |
| 10 | Soon he 'll be free again , back on the street , onstage with just his acoustic guitar or roaming his private kingdom at one with nature , able to find out how he really feels about things . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 12 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 13 | ‘ Svend was watching television and nursing his broken heart , trying to work out how he could go back home without losing face , when he was forced to realise the amount of trouble and disruption he and his erstwhile girlfriend had caused on all fronts ! ’ |
| 14 | So they returned each to his own country , blessing him for their deliverance , and magnifying his great bounty ; and forthwith they sent him tribute and acknowledged themselves to be his vassals . |
| 15 | Reynolds ' strategy for developing and maintaining his prized elitist image was an obsessive attention to detail , high standards and team spirit ; but his practice of circulating all the office paperwork as a system of mutual quality-control , combined with Roche-style hands-on management on occasion , occasionally backfired and some consultants left . |
| 16 | Rodin was a skilful salesman of his work , making careful use of photography in establishing and maintaining his good name . |
| 17 | Lamps lighting the desks at the nurses ' station were the brightest things in this open central space , and one of the lamps was catching Tom 's hair in its light , giving the short locks a golden glow like a halo , and bringing his commanding profile into sharp focus . |
| 18 | Now Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , is fighting fit and enjoying his new lease of life to the full . |
| 19 | Now Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , is fighting fit and enjoying his new lease of life to the full . |
| 20 | Hari returned his smile , liking his friendliness and enjoying his open admiration . |
| 21 | The only other person in the bar was a tramp who sat without a drink , muttering imprecations and occasionally turning and flashing his bloodshot eyes in the direction of some imaginary enemy to his right and stabbing the air with one crooked finger . |
| 22 | A man appeared at the end of the street , shouting and fluttering his white arms : his robe billowed like a sheet on a washing line . |
| 23 | Eventually this plan was abandoned in favour of a completely new church and , in Mr Dwyer 's own words : ‘ — while God was pouring out His Spirit and building His spiritual house , a spacious and attractive sanctuary was rising for the accommodation of worshippers who were soon to fill it with songs of praise . ’ |
| 24 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 25 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's all right , darling , ’ Laura murmured , reaching up to put her slim arms about his clearly unhappy figure , and cradling his dark head against her breast . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Eva whispered , sitting beside Dad now and cradling his drowsy head as she looked up at me . |
| 28 | He had begun building a water-powered factory and consolidating his landed estate by purchase . |
| 29 | ‘ Phew ! ’ exclaimed the sergeant , producing a red and white spotted kerchief from his trouser pocket and mopping his fevered brow . |
| 30 | He swooped across the market square in Antioch , while the crowd fell back appalled , and opening his huge mouth , like a salmon to a fly , snapped Margaret up . |