Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then moved to Oxford Polytechnic before launching his army career at Sandhurst . |
| 2 | The last horse , Bean 's own , stood halfway down the ramp , surveying his reception committee with benign , sleepy eyes . |
| 3 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 4 | The arrival of skiffle in the UK during the mid-'50s also added to blues awareness , Lonnie Donegan even nicking his stage name from New Orleans ' blues giant Lonnie Johnson . |
| 5 | A condition of the Daily Mail prize was that no serving pilot could win it , and so on March 10 , 1919 Jack was demobbed , ending his service career with the rank of Captain , he was now free to pursue this latest flying challenge . |
| 6 | He came back after cracking his knee cap in the England game against New Zealand , two years ago but fell victim to the same injury less than two months ago . |
| 7 | Professor Hoskins , basing his cost-of-living calculation on a range of local price data , not simply cereals , calculated that whereas real wages of labourers and craftsmen fell by around 30 per cent over the second half of the eighteenth century , those of most woollen workers fell by nearer 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Agassiz later became the foremost zoological teacher in the United States , basing his teaching practice on the observation of nature . |
| 9 | Pig-Pig junior is pressing his marshmallow body against the trolley wire in a desperate attempt to acquire chocolate bars . |
| 10 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 11 | It was on this stretch of the M40 near Banbury that Philip Walker , who 's 46 , was seen driving his Ford Escort at speeds of up to 114 miles an hour . |
| 12 | Toby Wynn , prosecuting , said Largue was driving his Ford Escort across Victoria Bridge in Stockton which has a speed limit of 30 miles per hour . |
| 13 | Quickly pushing his baby son into his wife 's arms , Andrews ran to the downed plane and saw that the pilot was trapped in his cockpit . |
| 14 | Sid was sitting on the roof of his trench soaking his camouflage square with petrol from the jerry can . |
| 15 | Filling his barrel chest with a deep breath , he glared around at the assembled crowd . |
| 16 | The Malaysian Prime Minister , Mohamed Mahathir , responded by warning that the USA was becoming " a threat to the future of small countries " and by replacing his trade minister with a lower ranking official at the APEC talks . |
| 17 | Tilghman , who was jailed for five years , fined £3,250 , reduced to the ranks and dismissed the service , is now serving his jail term in America . |
| 18 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 19 | One covenant which far too frequently causes legal problems concerns the reasonableness ( or otherwise ) of a landlord in refusing to consent to a tenant assigning his leasehold interest to another person . |
| 20 | When Green began writing his Guide Book to the Lake District these aids to walkers had already become popular . |
| 21 | Presenting his government programme on March 9 Dehaene said that priorities were ( i ) completion of the constitutional reforms started under Martens [ see p. 38465 ] ; ( ii ) " social renovation " ; and ( iii ) reducing the public debt and the budget deficit . |
| 22 | Masri , however , presenting his policy statement to parliament on July 11 , had insisted that " we are a continuation of previous administrations " . |
| 23 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 24 | In fact , so impressed am I with his performance that I shall personally be paying his train fare from Birmingham twice a week . |
| 25 | As the part requires an actor of substantial proportions , the obvious choice would be someone like John Candy or John Goodman ( of David Byrne 's True Stories and Channel Four 's Roseanne ) — though he may be simply too nice to play Ignatius , and is anyway busy perfecting his bowling technique for his upcoming appearance as Fred in the live-action version of The Flintstones . |
| 26 | By training a teacher of the deaf , the latter was celebrating his silver jubilee as superintendent missioner at Leeds during the year of the Cardiff Congress . |
| 27 | A RETIRED Army chief held police at bay for 27 hours after turning his country home into a fortress . |
| 28 | The old man hobbled into the circle of light , turning his cloth cap in his hands . |
| 29 | And lanky Texan Kevin Schwantz — the man with perhaps the most natural ability of all the GP racers — spearheads the Lucky Strike Suzuki team with the single aim of improving his runner-up position of 1990 . |
| 30 | He 's pretty ecstatic recalling his street encounter with a one-man horror circus on a recent European tour , but I just want to hold my stomach . |