Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] his [det] " 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 began producing his own flour , carrying on his baking business to 1855 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two days Maxim spent ambushing his own followers and then kicked into exile by George . |
| 9 | After a brief spell with BRM he started manufacturing his own Formula One car but with little success . |
| 10 | It was always a bad sign when the client started using his own medicine . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nettles started making his own inquiries . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He kept pulling his own and Viola 's photographs from his pocket to check details . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 21 | 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 . |