Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in his [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 " Regarde , Joseph , " said the French boy suddenly reining in his pony beside him and pointing to the far edge of the plain that they were crossing .
2 His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up .
3 Bill Clarke 's son , David literally following in his father 's footsteps .
4 Ace was already moving in his direction .
5 With so many memories already jostling in his mind , it seemed that weeks had passed since the killing .
6 When I returned home that afternoon I was surprised to find Dad already sitting in his chair by the fire .
7 He spent the interval just sitting in his dressing room , gathering his strength for the next act .
8 As he knew , the momentum was still building in his favour .
9 There were a lot and they included some identical to the set still bulging in his pocket .
10 So we 're one of the important environmental health departments , sure , so hopefully we will actually get somebody who is really very good , a food technician to assist in this erm field , and there have , I hope that through Food Forum we may well be able to help Matthew with his , well not just Matthew , but help , help that section with the nutrition advice that he feels is still lacking in his team under the circumstances .
11 It was revealed many years later that Sid had not actually bought the winning ticket but had found it mysteriously floating in his half-time Bovril .
12 But here he was , still sitting in his chair ( and looking as though he wished he were n't ) whilst her mother stood on the hearth-rug , arms folded and wearing a furious expression .
13 The first , as I was rapidly discovering in his hotel room , is enthusiasm .
14 She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss .
15 Yet the childish voice was still repeating in his head .
16 Already bodies littered the ground at his feet , but the mercenaries were pressing in and he was backing away , the mad fury still burning in his eye but something else there now as well : a realisation of defeat .
17 Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts .
18 At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two .
19 Exceptionally dashing in his polo clothes ( he was a ten-goal player ) , he must have struck an imposing figure at six foot four .
20 Brunel , no less committed than Hitchcock to an ‘ artistic ’ direction for British films , was later unstinting in his praise of a man who ‘ by his faith and support set the pace at a time when we most needed it ’ and credited him with contributing ‘ very considerably to the renaissance of the British film production industry . ’
21 At last he was on his feet but moving with difficulty , sharply drawing in his breath as pain shot through him .
22 Hugh was now wandering in his speech and scarcely able to stand without Marian 's help .
23 In His place there is a program that is ceaselessly running in his absence , without anyone 's being able to change anything whatever .
24 High upon Old Bedwetter and barbiturates , Sam Maggott lazed back in his office chair and smiled placidly upon the bleary-eyed officer now lounging in his doorway .
25 There were those , however , who decided by a quite conscious effort of will to involve themselves in the day-to-day life of such humble if not squalid areas of London ; one such man was Rev. William Quekett , about whom Dickens was here writing in his article , ‘ What a London curate can do if he tries ’ .
26 The humans were n't even looking in his direction .
27 Apart from a short break for the war years , when he served in the Royal Navy , Staveley has sailed and campaigned throughout , presently racing in his Dragon .
28 Such country risk can involve an exporter in a total loss on a transaction , sometimes resulting in his bankruptcy or insolvency .
29 She saw him turn and start to retrace his tortuous route , almost falling in his eagerness to return .
30 Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart .
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