Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between denying Agnes 's guesswork and denying his own responsibility , as she had intended . |
| 2 | The general thought he could do better , and for a time considered launching his own party . |
| 3 | Senior government officials confirmed that Gaviria was assembling his own team to ensure that the process of gathering evidence against and prosecuting the drug barons went smoothly . |
| 4 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 5 | Before opening his own gallery in the late 1980s , the Teheran-born Baghoomian was known to have operated a cash business in a SoHo basement where artists desperate for money could bring their works . |
| 6 | Sharp , clean minimal arts in such a rough space will make an interesting contrast and it launches an exhibition programme by the imaginative Jopling , who will be looking for unusual spaces for showing art as a solution to the uncertainties , expenses and predictability of opening his own gallery . |
| 7 | Opening his own door , he thought how great , how truly fantastic it was that there should be something into which they need not yet rush . |
| 8 | During the war he joined the Police force and then worked at Telfers Pie Factory before opening his own business — the Wimbledon Health Food Stores , with his wife , Joan . |
| 9 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 10 | The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings . |
| 11 | Magnus Fehn , 13 , was representing his own creation , the New Democracy Party , which plans to fleece the rich and tax the Queen . |
| 12 | Rhee was concerned with consolidating his own power base , building up the strength of his regime , securing American economic and military assistance , and with achieving the unification of Korea under his leadership : this would be the crowning attainment of his long struggle . |
| 13 | At the same time , he was engaged in disliking his own state of intellect at the moment , which appeared to own no responsibility for the production of that sentence and buzzed around small problems without much resource or repose . |
| 14 | John James Bell was charged , on 5 December 1989 , with unlawfully wounding his former girlfriend , Bridget Coffey , contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100 ) . |
| 15 | The son was cross ; but if he thought of the possibility of keeping his own salary for himself , he never voiced it . |
| 16 | Former England winger , Brian Marwood who 's on trial could have celebrated his first game with a hat trick , but County keeper , Martin Taylor was on top form and by keeping Swindon out and keeping his own team in the game he was the match winner . |
| 17 | In all three instances — Hedilla , the Basque government , Guernica — Franco was politically responsible , but employed his by now familiar " long-handled spoon " tactic , keeping his own hands clean by using others to impose his will . |
| 18 | When his illness was at the active stage , he was very particular about keeping his own utensils separate from everyone else 's , and would joke about it , saying as he sat down at the table , ‘ Make way for the leper . ’ |
| 19 | I 'll bring him up as my own but he 's keeping his own father 's name . ’ |
| 20 | He moved quickly to the door as Cardiff hauled Jimmy to his feet , keeping his own gun discreetly aimed in Duvall 's direction . |
| 21 | A cleaner is sueing his former landlord for thousands of pounds in damages , after he was evicted illegally . |
| 22 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 23 | His father , a Scotsman , had been gardener to a gentleman at Bromley before founding his own market gardening business at Deptford and , in the diary of Pehr Kalm , details about Miller 's early life are found . |
| 24 | Williams broke the hold of the cartel by founding his own smelting , manufacturing , and sales establishment , with smelters at Middle Bank in south Wales and Ravenhead in Lancashire and powerful rolling mills and battery plant at Holywell in north Wales . |
| 25 | It is as if he is intent only on protecting his own interests . |
| 26 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 27 | However , Maeda insisted that the proclamation be given , pledging his own word on behalf of Japan . |
| 28 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 29 | On his first ministerial visit to a hospital to meet with Bosnian evacuees , Dr Brian Mawhinney presented five year old Adis Avdic with a cuddly dinosaur , revealing his own daughter is a Jurrassic Park fan . |
| 30 | When in Mark 's gospel the father of the demented boy cried out , ‘ I believe ; help my unbelief ! ’ , he was condemning his own doubt as unbelief . |