Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pleasant , rather gentle middleaged man sitting in the quiet lounge of a London hotel , remembering how he learnt his trade . |
| 2 | In other words , by staying away he gives his offspring a better chance of survival . |
| 3 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 4 | The writer writes out of his own wounds and in doing so he enables his reader to experience emotional change , emotional growth , healing without having to suffer the same fate as his character . |
| 5 | We might say that Wordsworth has slanted his autobiography to fit a theory ; in doing so he denied his own high academic attainment . |
| 6 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 7 | In doing so she jarred his arm , and he flinched slightly . |
| 8 | Ive been saying recently we needed his inspiration to drag some wins out of the draws we ve been getting . |
| 9 | Crouching down he dug his fingers into the now cold coal dust , picking it up , sniffing at it carefully . |
| 10 | It has been noted that CD must here be loosely recalling Dryden 's translation of the poem ( 1697 ) , because in that version Aeneas is made to say , after telling how he saw his father Priam slain , ‘ My hair with horror stood ’ , but there is no corresponding expression in the original Latin . |