Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry shouted , banging his fist on the arm of the settee — and the wager provoked such interest among her customers that Mother Russell ( who was grizzle-haired and rather mournful ) began taking side bets , with the odds against Harry . |
| 2 | He picked it up , banging his head on the bowl . |
| 3 | The hand grabbed Arthur 's shirt front and tie in a vice like grip , and yanked him forward almost banging his head on the glass . |
| 4 | He was banging his head on the post and shouting . |
| 5 | And he kept banging his head on the ceiling ! |
| 6 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 7 | The assistant began banging his calculator on the ground and holding it up to his ear |
| 8 | ‘ It 's basically a simple matter , ’ he said , banging his hand on the file of testimony he had produced for inspection . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a scholar , ’ Brenner said , banging his hand on the stick again . |
| 10 | In what appeared to be a concerted campaign by the criminal justice authorities to prevent a fourth acquittal , Gotti 's previously successful defence lawyer was prohibited from representing his client on the grounds that he was peripherally involved in some of the evidence to be presented by the prosecution . |
| 11 | To get out of bed , the patient first lies on his back , clasps his hands together , keeping his elbows straight , and bends his unaffected knee , keeping his foot on the bed . |
| 12 | Keeping his gaze on the thread of light seeping out from the Bogeyman 's room , he inched his way along the threadbare strip of carpet . |
| 13 | He turned the sharpener slowly , keeping his eye on the lead . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's me Moll , Yanto , ’ he answered with an urgent whisper , still keeping his eye on the other bedroom window . |
| 15 | Wetherall then stumbled and fell over on the appalling pitch in the centre of the 6 yard box ( as he was correctly keeping his eye on the incoming ball ) . |
| 16 | For now Mr Gorbachev is just managing to continue what he does best : keeping his show on the road . |
| 17 | The injury-prone versatile Northampton player lasted just 39 minutes before dislocating his shoulder and booking his place on the plane home . |
| 18 | Mr Nicholls , 30 , a telecom network engineer from Warrington , went on to Slioch last Thursday , then spent most of the week wrapped in a polythene survival bag after twisting his ankle on the summit . |
| 19 | There is , however , a large variety of killings which lie above that line but below the line demarcating murder : a killing in which D knew there was a risk of death , but was held not to have intended death or grievous bodily harm , would fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a high sentence ; whereas a killing in which D pushed a person during an argument in the street and the person fell backwards , cracking his head on the kerb and dying from a brain haemorrhage , might also fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a low sentence . |
| 20 | Initially , he experimented with his second and third year lower sets , basing his syllabus on the Cockcroft Foundation list ( DES , 1982 ) and using games and other activities to try to make lessons more enjoyable . |
| 21 | In 1699 another English scientist , the anatomist Edward Tyson , basing his demonstration on the dissection of an orang-utang , made the influential pronouncement that pygmies represent " an intermediate link between Ape and Man " , 5 a proposition later adopted by both Linnaeus and Rousseau . |
| 22 | It is generally assumed first , that this ‘ ceremonial recognition of his son as king in his own lifetime was something new ’ ( although Aethelred of Mercia , for example , is said to have appointed Coenred as his heir ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) , second , that it was the first royal anointing in England ( though reservations have been expressed as to whether Ecgfrith was anointed or , if he was , whether he was the first ) , and , third , that Offa was basing his action on the recent papal consecration in 781 of the Frankish princes , Pippin and Louis , sons of Charlemagne ( though Byzantine precedents are also possible ) . |
| 23 | Alcuin , possibly basing his statement on the words of Bede ( HE 11 , 5 ) , later claimed that Eadwine subjected Saxons , Britons , Picts and Scots . |
| 24 | Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories . |
| 25 | A pensioner walking his dog on the other side of the street quickened his pace , obviously not wanting to be there when the men in white coats came for me . |
| 26 | A Morrison delivery beat him comprehensively , brushing his off-stump on the way to wicketkeeper Tony Blain . |
| 27 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 28 | Bernice could see him tapping his umbrella on the floor , pretending to study the walls , and glancing back impatiently as if he could n't believe that his companions were still unable to follow him . |
| 29 | An Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) donning his equipment on the site of a suspected Improvised explosive Device ( IED ) — Army terminology for a terrorist bomb — so that he can make a close inspection of the device if necessary |
| 30 | Vincent replied by return of post , writing his answer on the back of Theo 's letter — but not , he hastened to add , ‘ with the intention of insulting you . ’ |