Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed three points in 1976 driving his own Copersucar Ford , 11 in 1977 , 17 in 1978 , 1 in 1979 , 3 in 1980 and absolutely nothing in 1981 , the year when he finally stopped racing his own cars and quit F1 . |
| 2 | Lieutenant Georges Gaudy described watching his own regiment return from the May fighting near Douaumont : |
| 3 | He came wearing his purple confessor 's stole and carrying the little box of sacred oils for the anointing of the dying . |
| 4 | He hated showing his bald head . |
| 5 | They have been at Donnington since Claude Arkell 's ( the present owner 's ) ancestor , Thomas , began producing his distinctive beers in the old mill in 1865 . |
| 6 | He began producing his own flour , carrying on his baking business to 1855 . |
| 7 | Although his Spanish translation of the Mishnah was never published , and indeed is now lost , when Surenhusius began publishing his own Latin version at Amsterdam in 1698 he paid tribute to Abendana 's work . |
| 8 | He began developing his own contacts with the Chinese government , and advocating the view that Hong Kong should learn to accept China as a ‘ protector and friend ’ with whom a deepening relationship was both desirable and necessary . |
| 9 | It was during this time , when he was again near to death , than he began writing his best known book The Saint 's Everlasting Rest . |
| 10 | Here he began writing his Mosaic Chronology — a book in three parts on Patriarchal Christianity of which only the Stonehenge and Avebury sections were published . |
| 11 | She listened to the way he spoke and began imitating his careful diction , and her natural grace was an asset when she walked at his side . |
| 12 | ‘ Sweet God , ’ he said after a few seconds , then began buttoning his blue coat . |
| 13 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 14 | In 1952 in northern Greece he began making his own systematic digs , which a quarter of a century later would lead him to the royal treasures . |
| 15 | Standing behind Michael he began rubbing his taut muscular shoulders . |
| 16 | The two days Maxim spent ambushing his own followers and then kicked into exile by George . |
| 17 | BEFORE THE END of his mammoth production Birds of Europe and his Monograph of Toucans ever came into view , Gould began planning his next major project . |
| 18 | Her nightgown had ridden up around her waist , and she enjoyed feeling his hard , muscular legs entwined around hers . |
| 19 | As Yanto watched , the old man inclined his head to the right and began jabbing his right index finger into his right ear . |
| 20 | There was nothing in his face to show how much he enjoyed teasing his only sister . |
| 21 | Having changed this stage in the argument to his liking , Dwight Kronweiser began contemplating his next deathless paragraph , and gazed fixedly ahead of him as polysyllabic concepts moved through his mind like heavy artillery on parade . |
| 22 | After a brief spell with BRM he started manufacturing his own Formula One car but with little success . |
| 23 | It was always a bad sign when the client started using his own medicine . |
| 24 | Yuri soon started tapping his sock-clad feet in tune to the beat of the music , while one floor below several women in leotards went for the burn . |
| 25 | What happened was that he started doing his English Ziggy Stardust dates in early ‘ 72 and he worked without stopping until the summer of ‘ 73 when he did his Hammersmith Odeon concert and retired from the stage . |
| 26 | He started taking his own photographs to publicise his collections when he got impatient with photographers who did not understand what he was trying to say ; this has lead him to launch a parallel career as a photographer and his work is much in demand by magazines who like his candid portraits of such luminaires as Caroline of Monaco . |
| 27 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 28 | Nettles started making his own inquiries . |
| 29 | Vidor was a Texan and a Christian Scientist who first started making his own movies whilst working as a projectionist in what he described as ‘ the remote part of Texas ’ . |
| 30 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |