Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 2 | Laboriously , he began the complicated procedure of transcribing his intended message into apparently meaningless symbols . |
| 3 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 4 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 5 | Between denying Agnes 's guesswork and denying his own responsibility , as she had intended . |
| 6 | McMillan , who controversially lost his WBO crown to Ruben Palecio after dislocating his left shoulder in September , will be back in the ring in February . |
| 7 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 8 | Paying his first visit was Mr John Scott Morgan , launching his new book on the BCR . |
| 9 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |
| 10 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 11 | Senior government officials confirmed that Gaviria was assembling his own team to ensure that the process of gathering evidence against and prosecuting the drug barons went smoothly . |
| 12 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 13 | He might remain up here indefinitely without anyone noticing his feeble signals ! |
| 14 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 15 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 16 | Sir Phil , who walked away with about £70m from the takeover of Harris Queensway , has built Carpetright into one of Britain 's leading carpet retailers after opening his first store in London 's Canning Town in 1988 . |
| 17 | At the top is a cartoon by Tony Husband which shows a man opening his front door to an elephant and saying ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 18 | When he did he went into his house , opening his front door with his key . |
| 19 | Before opening his own gallery in the late 1980s , the Teheran-born Baghoomian was known to have operated a cash business in a SoHo basement where artists desperate for money could bring their works . |
| 20 | Sharp , clean minimal arts in such a rough space will make an interesting contrast and it launches an exhibition programme by the imaginative Jopling , who will be looking for unusual spaces for showing art as a solution to the uncertainties , expenses and predictability of opening his own gallery . |
| 21 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 22 | During the war he joined the Police force and then worked at Telfers Pie Factory before opening his own business — the Wimbledon Health Food Stores , with his wife , Joan . |
| 23 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was opening his celebrated King Lear on Broadway . |
| 26 | Miles was silent , preoccupied with opening his latest piece of equipment . |
| 27 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 28 | Whoever it is on the other side of this white wall , for instance , spends most of his waking hours wheezing and coughing and ( by the sound of it ) banging his swollen head against the partition . |
| 29 | Iago shrugged and smiled , muting his vibrating strings with a flattened palm . |
| 30 | Gary Hinchley was the first to show for Darlington , making the most of a mix-up in the home defence but blasting his early cross harmlessly into the crowd after five minutes . |