Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] his [noun sg] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Prentice has spent some of the happiest times of his life visiting the Malvern hills . |
| 2 | For a moment , the Robemaker did not speak and then he drew nearer , the dark , silken folds of his cloak brushing the floor with a hissing sound . |
| 3 | At this edict , the leviathan disappeared to the depths of the oceans , while the behemoth lay down to sleep , the mighty folds of his body becoming the Himalayan mountains . |
| 4 | The following day Charlie 's section of ten began to wish that he had n't spent the previous fourteen years of his life visiting the early morning market . |
| 5 | And he roared away into the night , the rough scales on his throat catching the breeze of his anger and making a hissing hum as he vanished . |
| 6 | Susceptible as Hardy was to intense emotional experience — one of his earliest memories was of being moved to tears by his father playing the violin — and to pretty girls , Emma 's attraction for him must also have rested in the circumstances of their meeting in a wild and beautiful setting , and in their mutual loneliness . |
| 7 | A DETECTIVE spent the last moments of his life watching the Grand National in a pub with friends . |
| 8 | Magill put his elbows on his dak clasping the dainty china cup in front of his mouth with both hands . |