Example sentences of "was [v-ing] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lineker became incensed when Taylor went public , not only questioning whether Lineker should remain as captain , but whether his form justified a place in the side — even though he was maintaining his phenomenal strike rate . |
| 2 | I was seeing his pock-marked face through a red film of chlorine irritation . |
| 3 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 4 | Out of the corner of one eye Charlie could n't help noticing that one of them was resting his only hand against his only leg . |
| 5 | He was resting his huge hand on June 's angled knee as casually as if it were the arm of a chair . |
| 6 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 7 | Jackson was using his chummy tone . |
| 8 | A passage from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture , relying on ideas from 1913 , hints how the poet was using his anthropological reading when discussing in an anthropological context the difference between imaginative understanding and lived experience . |
| 9 | Burun was using his short sword to cut thick slices from the meat on the platter in front of him . |
| 10 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 11 | Founder Gary Withers discovered that the timesheet system was annoying his 200 staff , he gathered all the offending papers and ceremoniously burnt them in the car park . |
| 12 | Soon afterwards he was building his own telescopes , at which , like most things he turns his hand to , he excels . |
| 13 | Whilst Edward of England sat fuming over what he had learnt , Sir Amaury de Craon was nursing his bruised wrist and shouting orders to his retinue for a swift return to Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Critics of the brave Brummie falsely believed that he was overdramatising his gruelling effort in a race with a theatrical limp afterwards . |
| 15 | Even as he greeted Dalgliesh he was taking off his jacket and was drawing his fine latex gloves over stubby-fingered hands which looked unnaturally white , almost bloodless . |
| 16 | With Rangers two goals up , Baxter was stamping his mazy authority on the game . |
| 17 | He signalled the first clear signs of disillusionment with Taylor when he revealed he was canvassing his fellow Council members about the events of the past six weeks . |
| 18 | Yeremi realized that during these precious moments Juron was allowing his Wolverine Squad to lose their umwelt-virginity , to embrace the shattering impact of the utterly new . |
| 19 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 20 | Sacher was a dedicated socialist who was devoting his considerable influence to blocking the attempts of private firms from the West to establish a dominating position . |
| 21 | Just a few weeks ago , Sefton was enjoying his thirtieth birthday party . |
| 22 | Raising her eyes to Rozanov , she asked in lighter tones how he was enjoying his first visit to England . |
| 23 | Doctor Lanyon was enjoying his after-dinner coffee . |
| 24 | As England manager Geoff Cooke was naming his 30-strong squad for the five-day excursion to fitness-testing agony , the oblivious Ojomoh was packing for a Christmas holiday with his family in Nigeria . |
| 25 | ‘ It sounds as though Wheeler was pursuing his old course of the row over the youth club at Narborough and trying to make out Paul 's part was more dishonourable than the Archdeacon and the Bishop said it was . |
| 26 | Further evidence that Castro was pursuing his own course rather than responding to US actions is given by the testimony of US Ambassador Philip Bonsal , who found his efforts to meet with Castro and to pursue negotiations thwarted . |
| 27 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 28 | No sulks from United they came back with a bounce … and this should have been 2-1 … the run and shot was down to Chris Pike but the referee gave off-side against Pickard who was minding his own business … bad decision |
| 29 | Senior government officials confirmed that Gaviria was assembling his own team to ensure that the process of gathering evidence against and prosecuting the drug barons went smoothly . |
| 30 | But the Champion chaser , who was landing his 12th success from 13 starts over fences for Nicky Henderson ( above ) , was far from impressive on the softish surface . |