Example sentences of "is [v-ing] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is dabbing his lips with the napkin . |
| 2 | An enterprising sheep farmer is opening his gates to the public during the lambing season . |
| 3 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 4 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 5 | Hopkins is worried that Strieber is turning his experiences into the source for a new religion . |
| 6 | If he means by knowledge an accumulation of inconsequential facts then of course she would agree with him , but one suspects that in his concern for ‘ things of the heart ’ he is turning his back on the curiosity men share to know the world of objects . |
| 7 | ONE of India 's leading artist is turning his attention to the Tees and has set up studio in Middlesbrough art gallery . |
| 8 | In the story , Jim Corbett is describing his hunt for the Chowgarh tigress who killed at least 64 human beings between 1925 and 1930 before their first and last meeting took place . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land . |
| 10 | Secondly , the valuer is directed to make his valuation on the assumption that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer . |
| 11 | THE man who gave TV viewers Eldorado is quitting his job with the BBC . |
| 12 | Now , Brion Gysin , Burroughs 's fellow denizen of Tangier , is getting his share of the spotlight . |
| 13 | One is dancing his way round the outside of the shrine , carrying another sitting upright on his shoulder . |
| 14 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 15 | The significant point however is that the speaker is evoking his view of the possibility of the daring , and it is only by logical implication that we infer his opinion of its realization . |
| 16 | Furthermore , not only does Hilton imply that he is implementing his treatment of the subject in Scale 1 at the beginning of Scale 2 , there are also points in Scale 1 where he anticipates a development of his subject beyond that relevant for his immediate recipient . |
| 17 | Seconds later the two rafts following behind hit the same spot and the Minister is taking his chances in the river along with everyone else . |
| 18 | FORMER Glentoran and RBAI schoolboy Stuart Reid is making his mark on the American college circuit . |
| 19 | A BOY is making his mark in the entertainment business before he has even left school . |
| 20 | Like so many others in the art world , he is pinning his hopes on the proposed National Lottery , and his organisation has already submitted a list of historic monuments and sites which need £500 million before the year 2000 . |
| 21 | The man may feel that , if she 's harking back to the whys and wherefores , his wife is rubbing his nose in the past . |
| 22 | But now — who would have dreamt it ? the thaw is trickling , the great tit is ringing his bell from the top of a bare lime tree , the earth is scented ; and the hares bound and skip in the warm wind . |
| 23 | Therefore , by closing down the range of possible moral excuse , the definitionalist is imposing his morality upon the law and breaking the vital nexus between the current standards of ordinary decent people and the content of the criminal law . |