Example sentences of "and [v-ing] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 2 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 3 | ‘ Svend was watching television and nursing his broken heart , trying to work out how he could go back home without losing face , when he was forced to realise the amount of trouble and disruption he and his erstwhile girlfriend had caused on all fronts ! ’ |
| 4 | So they returned each to his own country , blessing him for their deliverance , and magnifying his great bounty ; and forthwith they sent him tribute and acknowledged themselves to be his vassals . |
| 5 | Rodin was a skilful salesman of his work , making careful use of photography in establishing and maintaining his good name . |
| 6 | If an employer is faced with the situation where an employee has , in his own time and using his own equipment , developed a useful computer program , then the employer should immediately try to reach agreement as regards questions of ownership and use of the programs with the employee concerned , rather than allowing the program to be used without such agreement . |
| 7 | Lamps lighting the desks at the nurses ' station were the brightest things in this open central space , and one of the lamps was catching Tom 's hair in its light , giving the short locks a golden glow like a halo , and bringing his commanding profile into sharp focus . |
| 8 | Now Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , is fighting fit and enjoying his new lease of life to the full . |
| 9 | Now Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , is fighting fit and enjoying his new lease of life to the full . |
| 10 | Hari returned his smile , liking his friendliness and enjoying his open admiration . |
| 11 | The only other person in the bar was a tramp who sat without a drink , muttering imprecations and occasionally turning and flashing his bloodshot eyes in the direction of some imaginary enemy to his right and stabbing the air with one crooked finger . |
| 12 | A man appeared at the end of the street , shouting and fluttering his white arms : his robe billowed like a sheet on a washing line . |
| 13 | Eventually this plan was abandoned in favour of a completely new church and , in Mr Dwyer 's own words : ‘ — while God was pouring out His Spirit and building His spiritual house , a spacious and attractive sanctuary was rising for the accommodation of worshippers who were soon to fill it with songs of praise . ’ |
| 14 | When he was not flying he kept himself busy by designing and building his own fighter with parts ‘ cannibalised ’ from scrapped and battle damaged aircraft . |
| 15 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
| 16 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 17 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 18 | Between denying Agnes 's guesswork and denying his own responsibility , as she had intended . |
| 19 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's all right , darling , ’ Laura murmured , reaching up to put her slim arms about his clearly unhappy figure , and cradling his dark head against her breast . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Eva whispered , sitting beside Dad now and cradling his drowsy head as she looked up at me . |
| 22 | He had begun building a water-powered factory and consolidating his landed estate by purchase . |
| 23 | ‘ Phew ! ’ exclaimed the sergeant , producing a red and white spotted kerchief from his trouser pocket and mopping his fevered brow . |
| 24 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 25 | He swooped across the market square in Antioch , while the crowd fell back appalled , and opening his huge mouth , like a salmon to a fly , snapped Margaret up . |
| 26 | He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . |
| 27 | As Dispensary physician almost the whole burden of the epidemic fell on his shoulders and the women of Aberdeen turned against him , holding him responsible for the facts he revealed , and disputing his fervent belief in the efficacy of purging and heavy bleeding which were ‘ repugnant to popular opinion ’ . |
| 28 | Former England winger , Brian Marwood who 's on trial could have celebrated his first game with a hat trick , but County keeper , Martin Taylor was on top form and by keeping Swindon out and keeping his own team in the game he was the match winner . |
| 29 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 30 | Then he went over to the window , and gazed down into Hand and Ball Court for several minutes , frowning and pushing his lower lip up alternately . |