Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Too obviously he had lunched well on a dish laced with garlic , and he kept twirling his dark moustache , of which he seemed inordinately proud , while in halting French I explained my purpose . |
| 32 | He kept firing his inexhaustible gun at us , shattering the entire rear of the car– Susan threw up enough concealed armour plate to keep us safe , but ricochets still twanged through the night . |
| 33 | He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ? |
| 34 | Essentially , this meant maintaining his own personal renunciation of the world , cultivating the presence of God in meditation and prayer , and maintaining that liberty which is found only in rectitude . |
| 35 | I think it was Christy we were playing with and he kept landing his second shots close . |
| 36 | He kept pulling his own and Viola 's photographs from his pocket to check details . |
| 37 | A very simple ( and true ) illustration of this point arose in one accident where a BOAC pilot died flying his own privately owned small aeroplane only the day after he had landed his Boeing 707 full of passengers at Heathrow . |
| 38 | Patrick Milligan would sigh despairingly as if God had deserted him , before wandering drunkenly off to his own , now single , bed , where he lay cursing his miserable lot before falling into a deep and whisky sodden sleep . |
| 39 | He insisted taking his three weeks annual leave on top , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 40 | Cold tremors of fear kept shaking his whole body . |
| 41 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 42 | He kept telling his gentle mother , both before and after the death ( in 1911 ) of his more authoritarian and rabbinical father ( the first Lord Swaythling ) , that he could not marry a Jewess because he found them so unattractive . |
| 43 | For men like Stan Weatherall , whom we left experiencing his first long journey by canoe , this reorganisation swept away the frustrations of the summer of 1941 . |
| 44 | I 'm almost out , ’ he said examining his loose change . |
| 45 | ‘ The trouble with you lot , ’ he said swinging his uniformed arms , clipboard and all , ‘ is you 're too liberal . |
| 46 | He continued posting his daily letters at the stage door , using his wife 's bike to get there . |
| 47 | Ducking to put the van between them Maxim ran crouching his soft-soled shoes making the barest patter on the rough but thank God dry paving . |
| 48 | Luigi continued polishing his new coffee machine . |
| 49 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 50 | Desmond McAteer was given a two year suspended prison sentence at the city 's Crown Court when he admitted attacking his rival involved in the love triangle with his wife . |
| 51 | He missed seeing his two small daughters . |
| 52 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 53 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 54 | The agency was enjoying considerable success on a worldwide basis at the time and , when there was a change in ownership , he considered starting his own business in marketing consulting . |
| 55 | Outside , on the grass stippled with the bright embroidery of light and shadow under the trees , Iago Vaughan sat clasping his little travelling harp . |
| 56 | Lucenzo stood towelling his blond hair , his face smooth-shaven . |