Example sentences of "with his [adj] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : standing by Michael Jayston in Stand by Your Man ; below left ; showing Patience in Mrs Worthington 's Daughter ; below right : Michael Gambon with his greatest fan in Looking for Señor Duende . |
| 2 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 3 | With his practical knowledge of mining engineering and his nine years as a football manager , Chapman was well equipped to deal with the demands of industrial management . |
| 4 | Afterwards he met Morris , who suggested the way that he should go in combining his radical conscience with his practical abilities in making and designing . |
| 5 | It was a depressing time for both of them , not helped for Charles by the failure of all his schemes somehow to circumvent the CO 's ban on volunteering , together with his unwilling commitment of providing entertainment . |
| 6 | So with his endless itinerary of clubbing and DJing , how does he relax ? |
| 7 | Davis Love III has muscled his way into the inner-circle with his rock-steady prformance in winning The Players Championship . |
| 8 | Mr Major , delighted with his spectacular success in securing an historic fourth term in power for the Tories , said his first task was to ensure there was a ‘ broadly based recovery in which all will share ’ . |
| 9 | In line with his unprescriptive manner of teaching about how to develop contemplative life which is governed by his awareness of the intensely individual nature of discretionary achievement , Hilton is deliberately leaving his terms open , or using those likely to be directly applicable to actives , so that the recipient should not be constrained by definitions as he develops in his contemplative life . |
| 10 | This was all of a piece with his generous custom of letting his research students take full credit for collaborative research and leaving his own name off their publications . |
| 11 | In Drenthe , with his unerring instinct for bringing old and new together , he took note of a gnarled old apple tree , how ‘ at certain moments ( it ) bears blossoms that are among the most delicate and virginal things under the sun . ’ |
| 12 | In a sweet movement of speed and motion , the ball was left to run long to Patel who deftly feinted with his left shoulder before picking out David Mayson . |
| 13 | He was familiar with his own record of defying the court and it has never been suggested on his behalf that the sentence was other than fully justified . |
| 14 | The West German Chancellor also fell into line with his French allies by agreeing that the Community should try to be ready to implement the economic union when the single market came fully into operation on January 1 , 1993 . |
| 15 | Cripps drafted the agreement with his customary dexterity in skating round tricky comers , and they all met to finalise the agreement on Sunday evening , 26 January . |
| 16 | Mr Takeshita wants that election to come after the Paris economic summit in mid-July , hoping that the voters will be impressed with his statesmanlike performance in dealing with the Latin debt crisis . |
| 17 | John was disgraced early in 1290 with his judicial colleagues for failing to prevent the chief justice of the court Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] altering the record of a case heard in the court . |