Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Maybe he 's just staying with his mother until he finds a place of his own . ’ |
| 32 | Ace was already moving in his direction . |
| 33 | The Sheikh was only just getting into his stride . |
| 34 | Uncle Hamish was already rising from his seat , looking positively twinkly with health and good cheer . |
| 35 | The Chancellor — clearly just clinging to his job — told Ministers at a Cabinet meeting yesterday that they must slash millions off their budgets . |
| 36 | Horrified householder Jack Allen , 66 , said : ‘ This young chap was just staring at his car with glazed eyes . |
| 37 | He was already reaching for his phone , jabbing an extension number . |
| 38 | With so many memories already jostling in his mind , it seemed that weeks had passed since the killing . |
| 39 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 40 | still talking to the referee there 's a lot of chirping going on out there , and the referee can clamp down on that very easily by just reaching for his hip pocket . |
| 41 | ’ Ni , ni , ’ said Alex , already slurping into his bottle . |
| 42 | When I returned home that afternoon I was surprised to find Dad already sitting in his chair by the fire . |
| 43 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |
| 44 | He was just warming to his task when Reed sold him out . |
| 45 | He spent seven years just sitting on his backside in the house . |
| 46 | He spent the interval just sitting in his dressing room , gathering his strength for the next act . |
| 47 | He half expected ocean , the white towers of Moon Beach , but there was only land , land that looked infinite , land without end , and he stood still and stared , as if by staring he could make something happen , the first drop of rain already drying on his shoulder . |
| 48 | Just thinking about his car made Henry want to hire an electric hammer and run with all convenient speed to Wimbledon , to fall upon its bodywork with screams of rage . |
| 49 | Birkenhead , who had written after the victory of 1924 of ‘ the tragedy that so great an Army should have so uninspiring a Commander in Chief ’ and was usually more sparing with his admiration than with his criticism , allowed some balancing increase of his own regard for Baldwin to occur . |
| 50 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 51 | Endill was still recovering from his journey in the basket lift and he followed behind the Headmaster without a word . |
| 52 | As he knew , the momentum was still building in his favour . |
| 53 | Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems . |
| 54 | DUNCAN Bond , the 13-year-old son of Springfields site visits officer , Eric , is still competing with his father for possession of a coloured sticker representing the flight of the Atlantis space shuttle . |
| 55 | He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti . |
| 56 | Ardamal just beat Kreig out of the door , while Dommer was still fumbling with his flamer . |
| 57 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 58 | Aware of his supper rapidly cooling under his arm , Coffin nevertheless let the conversation go on . |
| 59 | Was Peterson of the piano factory still trading on his name , he wondered ? |
| 60 | Still swearing under his breath , Dexter pulled off the cover from the bottom of the boiler and relit the pilot light . |