Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Greenway , 58 , correctwas accused of accepting foreign holidays and gifts in return for using his parliamentary influence to help an Austrian company win British Rail contracts . |
| 2 | At each end of the centre or top of the stetch he placed a hazel-stick , taken from the hedge and peeled so that the white pith acted as a sight for drawing his first furrow . |
| 3 | But her own perspective was different : Durance had told Joseph that Leary was living nearby but Joseph had done nothing about contacting his old friend until he needed an alibi for the night of the murder . |
| 4 | In Norman Nicholson 's Lake District anthology , he is sensibly clear-headed about including his own work where he thinks it is useful . |
| 5 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 6 | Mr Trump , who has a penchant for naming his many buildings , hotels and casinos after himself , purchased what is now the Trump Shuttle from Eastern 's parent company , Texas Air Corp , in April for $365m . |
| 7 | In March he had been sought by police for crashing his '66 Corvette Sting-Ray into a car he was trying to pass and then driving away . |
| 8 | When his illness was at the active stage , he was very particular about keeping his own utensils separate from everyone else 's , and would joke about it , saying as he sat down at the table , ‘ Make way for the leper . ’ |
| 9 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 10 | The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings . |
| 11 | This aspect of Richards 's thought is not so important for understanding his literary theory , since , as we have seen , he associated poetry with the emotive , not the referential , use of language . |
| 12 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 13 | But it was the mock-Tudor style which first caught the public 's imagination and appealed to the burgeoning market of more affluent self-builders who were happy to delegate the construction , says Potton 's PR manager , Richard Crisp , who joined the company four years ago after building his own Potton home . |
| 14 | He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century . |
| 15 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 16 | Right : P&O Roadtanks HGV Fitter , Mick Richardson , looks calm and collected after completing his fourth marathon |
| 17 | After completing his national service in the Army , the youthful Dawson decided to go to Paris in search of literary inspiration . |
| 18 | After completing his national service in the army he had planned to use his university degree in law and mathematics to embark on a career as a lawyer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After gaining his international licence , the Charrington RAC Rally was his first international competition . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Earlier this season , a last- minute goal from Duncan Ferguson did the damage and the return of the tall striker to the first team after resolving his personal problems is another reason for Aberdeen 's manager , Willie Miller , to view the game with caution . |
| 23 | Henry Skelton fell from a window days after writing his own obituary . |
| 24 | QUICK-THINKING Tommy Robinson is the toast of his family today after saving his four-year-old cousin from drowning . |
| 25 | Birmingham 's Swift boxed for half the fight one-handed after damaging his right fist . |
| 26 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 27 | SEPT 5 : Allegations — unproven — that he made gestures to the Wimbledon crowd after scoring his second goal in Arsenal 's 3-2 defeat . |
| 28 | After scoring his spectacular debut goal , Pollock ran over towards Middlesbrough 's travelling fans and did a somersault . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 's doing this to me after 33 years of marriage , ’ said Bill , who had retired with Anne to Guernsey after selling his shopfitting business in north London . |
| 30 | In the return match in 1902 , Fitzsimmons was beaten in eight rounds after breaking his right hand trying to knock Jeffries out . |