Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there is the alarmingly bequiffed Brian Walden and his weakness for answering his own questions and his ‘ notorious ’ summaries — the tell-tale preface is ‘ Let's just see if I understand you . ’ |
| 2 | Walker relies on his speed to the ball and the change of the back-pass law has exposed his weakness in releasing it constructively . |
| 3 | She then tested his creativity by asking him to write down all the things he could do with various objects such as a brick or a shoe , and all the things that would happen if certain events suddenly occurred , such as everyone in the world losing their sight or having to walk on all fours . |
| 4 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 5 | The stage at which the patient starts relearning how to dress himself is determined largely by his progress in regaining his balance firstly while sitting up and then standing . |
| 6 | He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father . |
| 7 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |
| 8 | He 'd kept his part by buying me the nightdress , now it was up to me to keep mine . |
| 9 | He knows that it is his business to contribute something of his own to this store of experience ; and that he should play his part in moulding it and improving it to meet changing conditions . |
| 10 | Paul Reece played his part in keeping them out . |
| 11 | Harry dipped the blade into the sea to wash it , and dried it on the cuff of his shirt before replacing it in its sheath . |
| 12 | Silas gritted , leaping from the bed and straightening his shirt by tucking it into his trousers . |
| 13 | Inheriting a fortune on the sudden death of his father , and to the acute distress of the family trustees , Samuel Junior devoted much of his money to sustaining It and funding the activities of Michael X. It moved , first to Fitzroy Square , then to Betterton Street in Covent Garden , and later , in 1968 , to Endell Street in the same neighbourhood . |
| 14 | But if the Section Sergeant goes in for any necessary purpose , the Inspector comes in , he is reported and gets a severe reprimand from his superiors for idling his time in the Station . |
| 15 | One can only admire his open-mindedness in allowing what would at first seem to him to be a reactionary step . |
| 16 | … the primal father had prevented his sons from satisfying their directly sexual impulsions ; he forced them into abstinence and consequently into emotional ties with him and with one another which could arise out of those of their impulsions that were inhibited in their sexual aim … . |
| 17 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 18 | ‘ The congenitally odd-jeaned person to my left will take my place , ’ I mumbled , waving one hand in his direction before letting my head resume its communion with Hamish and Tone 's lounge carpet . |
| 19 | Though immensely enjoyable to read , the Exercises give no impression that Gassendi is doing the best by his opponents before attacking them . |
| 20 | Then he made this behaviour steadily more difficult for his birds by challenging them with blasts of air , or baths filled with water , or by making them push past weighted doors . |
| 21 | He rose , scrubbed his teeth by dipping his finger in some salt , washed his face in a bowl of rosewater , put on his boots and , led by a still joking Corbett , went downstairs to break his fast in the small buttery . |
| 22 | Police identified the bomber as an Azerbaijani man who had shouted a warning to other passengers just before the blast , but by Aug. 8 investigators had concluded that he was not a terrorist but a dishonest businessman trying to escape his creditors by faking his own death . |
| 23 | The P-40 was resold to Tony Dire of Everett , of Washington , who made a landmark of his purchase by mounting it atop his petrol station to attract customers . |
| 24 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |
| 25 | ‘ Luke had his reasons for taking me out , and I can assure you , Rob , that they had nothing to do with — with his liking me . ’ |
| 26 | During his absence Luce had had time to think about his reasons for bringing her here . |
| 27 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 28 | Kermode has set out his reasons for refusing it in Essays on Fiction , and Lodge has remarked , ‘ To open a book or article by … |
| 29 | Murder brought Raskolnikov to see that he did n't believe his reasons for committing it . |
| 30 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |