Example sentences of "his [noun] [noun sg] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man with his back to her bent over a large table covered with papers , his silver hair catching the light from an overhead lamp . |
| 2 | If this was the summit of his career , his finest moment was his maverick statement opposing the House Committee on Un-American Activities . |
| 3 | Roger , 52 , who designed the ad himself , was forced to put a sign in his shop window explaining the error . |
| 4 | He half-shouted , half-screamed , his sword arm punctuating the words . |
| 5 | … the Messiah is to suffer death and to rise from the dead on the third day , and … in his name repentance bringing the forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all nations ( Luke 24:46 ) . |
| 6 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 7 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |
| 8 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 9 | The seat reclined back slowly , and he watched her , unsmiling , his blue eyes moving with deliberate sexual assessment over her body , his hand accidentally-on-purpose sliding the blanket from her . |
| 10 | Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor , is this weekend closeted with his Treasury team assessing the danger to his economic strategy from last week 's rise in interest rates , and the sharp rise in unemployment . |
| 11 | Yet even when Ruddock allowed his sleep to be interrupted by thoughts of Lewis 's punching ability , he could n't have envisaged his boxing rival having the power to produce a single knockout punch . |
| 12 | But as he proved at Knowsley Road on Sunday , although he may have descended into relative obscurity he still possesses exceptional powers of motivation , with his Dewsbury side producing the most impressive performance of the Regal Trophy so far . |