Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retired engineer who has collected information on card indexes over 30 years as a member of the World Ship Society is devoting his full time to implementing such a database . |
| 2 | ‘ I offered him a bed in our relatives ' hostel , but he prefers to stay at his club , and , as he has this spinal arthritis , is bringing his own car and the man who looks after him . |
| 3 | That he 's using his vast profits from drug-smuggling to finance his terrorist activities ? ’ |
| 4 | Watkinson is resting his broken finger . |
| 5 | Limited duration : e.g. The professor is typing his own letters ( these days ) . |
| 6 | The professor is typing his own letters for the time being . |
| 7 | At home he was quite funny but ‘ like a very large baby — he bangs his spoon when he 's eating his boiled egg . ’ |
| 8 | But in the meantime he 's enjoying his new-found freedom . |
| 9 | That should be a paramount objective er in financial institutions because D T I inquiries have indicated er that the work is less adequate er when er they 're relying er on when a man is checking his own figures or those of a colleague , that was er er in at the roadships erm re report . |
| 10 | A cleaner is sueing his former landlord for thousands of pounds in damages , after he was evicted illegally . |
| 11 | As a special Mother 's Day treat , Bartjan is revealing his secret recipes for a delicious three-course meal to serve eight people : |
| 12 | I 'll bring him up as my own but he 's keeping his own father 's name . ’ |
| 13 | When at home , Mr Berisha 's main preoccupation is keeping his unruly party under control . |
| 14 | He 's relishing his new opportunity . |
| 15 | but he 's an Abo , and he 's painting his own place . |
| 16 | For this month 's Edinburgh festival , Coogan is basing his entire act around four of these mysterious misfit creations : Alan Partridge the patronising sports commentator , Earnest Moss the pedantic safety officer , bad aspiring alternative comedian Duncan Thicket , and Paul Calf the slurring beer boy from suburban hell . |
| 17 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 18 | yeah yeah he 's wanting his own independence you see |
| 19 | However , it suffers from the drawback that each consultant is defining his own case type and will do it differently from another consultant in another hospital . |
| 20 | Heber is serving his three-year term in a federal prison in Bastrop , Texas . |
| 21 | He 's operating his own hours . |
| 22 | He is smoking his curly pipe still , but is now wearing only a Turkish bathrobe and Persian slippers . |
| 23 | Like Payne and Haeggman who had 67 , and another Swede Anders Gillener caught McAllister on 140 , he is seeking his maiden Tour success . |
| 24 | Mal Donaghy is seeking his first Championship medal at the age of 35 as fourth-placed Chelsea try to extend a brilliant run of seven wins in their last 10 games . |
| 25 | I withdraw the commendation that I gave the hon. Gentleman , but only because that is damaging his political career . |
| 26 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 27 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 28 | The difference being that this time the child is inside and not outside , and the poet is remembering his own childhood . |
| 29 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 30 | Spenser at this stage is establishing his own claims to rational soundness by having Eudoxus , with his common sense English perspective , be seen marginalising the apocalyptic claims of Irenius . |