Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [v-ing] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 2 | For both the buyer and the seller this tends to make sense , since it is more efficient for the seller to insure against the risk under an insurance policy covering the risk of damage to goods in transit than for the buyer to cover the goods under an all risks policy relating to his moveable property . |
| 3 | A Dickens favourite according to his manager , Dolby , ’ said Oliver provocatively from his lowly position , two seats away from Sir Thomas . |
| 4 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
| 5 | He bequeathes a number of books : a ‘ little booke of praiers ’ and service books belonging to his chapel , ‘ my saulter clasped with silver ’ , and ‘ my grete booke called saint Grall ’ ( British Library Royal MS 14 . |
| 6 | Dieter Erdle had just arrived with Rose Kettle clinging to his arm . |
| 7 | The three men turned , facing it , Kao Chen getting to his feet . |
| 8 | For a while it seemed that the whole black music scene had a fixation about penning songs with titles formed entirely around the same noun , Sam Cooke adding to his bank balance via ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ( 1963 ) while James Brown band singer Anna King and Bobby Byrd provides a classic of the same title during '64 . |
| 9 | He had faced 3 assault charges relating to his bid to rid his area of prostitutes and curbcrawlers . |
| 10 | The horse soldier , however , with his longer sword , wore leather armour in the form of a jerkin or jacket sewn with iron plates reaching to his thighs . |
| 11 | Moreover , as Goulding J had found , each salesman could quickly commit the whole of the sales information relating to his own area to memory . |
| 12 | They were two minutes away from their sixth barren scoreline in manager Don Howe 's 15-match reign when Thomas 's shot took a violent deflection off Sansom to leave goalkeeper Ogrizovic moving to his left while the ball sailed inside his right hand post . |
| 13 | They were two minutes away from their sixth barren scoreline in manager Don Howe 's 15-match reign when Thomas 's shot took a violent deflection off Sansom to leave goalkeeper Ogrizovic moving to his left while the ball sailed inside his right hand post . |
| 14 | THE sight of a frustrated Jim McLean gesticulating to his players from the touchline can be amusing in normal circumstances . |
| 15 | The press began gathering early this afternoon , after a newspaper reported that John Bryan rents an 18th century cottage belonging to his friends , the Lord and Lady of the Manor of Painswick . |
| 16 | The second half was only six minutes old as Fairmile 's Kevin Shepherd 's close range snapshot sent Milton 's goalkeeper Paul Whittington diving to his left save , and one minute later Clive Minor 's shot was kicked off the line by Milton 's Paul Storey , as Fairmile tried to reduce the deficit . |
| 17 | Williamson 's Fire ( 1901 ) competently builds tension by running together the story of a man in a burning room and the fire brigade scurrying to his rescue . |
| 18 | When he got outside he turned to the right , up to the mountain road leading to his home . |