Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doubter will never remember unless God works in his heart bringing a conviction of sin . |
| 2 | If a man wanted to spend his money taking a drive of a hundred paces , it was up to him . |
| 3 | Charlie Jordan was sitting beside his boat enjoying a pipe while he repaired some tackle that had been damaged . |
| 4 | The sight of his figure pushing a trolley loaded with cleaning utensils , mops , brushes arranged incongruously , though always tidily , around teapots , cups and saucers , so that it at times resembled a street-hawker 's barrow , became a familiar one around the house . |
| 5 | It was not uncommon to see him slipping out of his darkroom carrying a head partly wrapped in old newspaper : evidently , we now rule Rome . |
| 6 | William of Malmesbury said King Edward ‘ clapped spurs to his horse , but one foot slipped and he dragged by the other through the wood , his blood leaving a trail until he was dead . ’ |
| 7 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |
| 8 | Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries . |
| 9 | Here a jilted lover is said to have ‘ snapped when he saw his girlfriend fondling a man 's bottom in a pub . |
| 10 | The same ostentatious pride in Southern good manners also prompted him to sit up immediately when one of the ship 's white-uniformed junior officers appeared at his side bearing a tray of iced drinks for him , his wife and two sons . |
| 11 | IT would n't happen on this newspaper , of course , but in Washington a reporter got fed up with his editor having a go at him because his first sentences were too long . |
| 12 | Although her twenty-six-year-old boyfriend has an income from his job managing a shop , he has so far taken little interest and no responsibility for her or the baby . |
| 13 | Sir Mark on his black warhorse , his dark red hair oiled and combed ; before him went his squire carrying a banner with the Burghgesh arms , and marching behind were six archers with steel caps , quilted jerkins , long bows and quivers full of goose-quilled arrows . |
| 14 | Rideout faces a three-match ban after catching Peacock right in front of referee Gerald Ashby , who earlier applied the letter of the law when Southall instinctively grabbed a backpass straight at his midriff whilestanding a yard outside his area . |
| 15 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |
| 16 | He is labelled a criminal because of his extra-marital affair , although the legal system sanctions his wife taking a lover . |
| 17 | Charles Woolridge had sent messages to his wife arranging a date in London . |
| 18 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 19 | The highest award was £307,781 to a computer expert who injured his back helping a store detective stop a suspected shoplifter . |
| 20 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |
| 21 | But when a horse crashes into a fence in an attempt to escape a hump-backed monster ( in reality , his owner carrying a sack of oats ) , small wonder that he is liable to be thought stupid . |
| 22 | The Bishop of Dorchester all dressed up behind the beer pumps at his local giving a blessing and then leading the congregation in the Lord 's prayer . |
| 23 | Vaughan 's gravity may have exacerbated Minton 's flippancy , his flightiness becoming a form of self-protection from Vaughan 's unremitting critical intelligence . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm incredibly romantic , ’ said Guy when he greets me at his door holding a bunch of carnations in one hand and a book of poetry by John Keats in the other . |
| 25 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had spent much of his life combining a climb towards the summit of the Shiite hierarchy with the elaboration of a coherent set of ideas about what was wrong with both contemporary Iran and much of the outside world . |
| 26 | González accordingly remained in power , his government winning a vote of confidence on April 5 [ see pp. 37262 ; 37330 ; 37387 ] . |
| 27 | González accordingly remained in power , his government winning a vote of confidence on April 5 [ see pp. 37262-63 ; 37330 ; 37387 ] . |
| 28 | When Herve charged through the door the Italian was lying on his bed reading a porn comic . |
| 29 | Her father , himself ten years older than her mother , seemed more concerned about his daughter marrying a man who was seventeen years older than her , and had felt that she was entering into the marriage largely because of the misfortune that had afflicted her family . |
| 30 | His Messerschmidt Overtaking a Tram was not bought by the War Office , being a bit close to the truth ; but his Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo is an endearing , surreal narrative work which foreshadows his later direction as a painter of the ethereal and unexpected . |