Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradford Northern coach Peter Fox has delayed naming his side for tomorrow 's Trophy quarter-final against Widnes but Great Britain scrum-half Deryck Fox is definitely out . |
| 2 | The police are entitled to tell the person walking away from the scene to discontinue using his filthy language , which would in all likelihood constitute an offence under section 5 of the new Act . |
| 3 | But he had stopped trusting his thoughts . |
| 4 | I can also confirm that £300 is available to enable John Bowers , of the Leeds Business School , to continue pursuing his critical examination of the economic justification of the barrage scheme on our behalf . |
| 5 | He had stopped using his legs . |
| 6 | There is no reason why a lyricist should elucidate but in Gedge 's case the lack of chimera can make surveying his words an unrewarding exercise . |
| 7 | Clearly he felt time wasted explaining his cause was time lost gathering signatures . |
| 8 | Fogarty , of Columbia Way , Blackburn , Lancs , who recently won the world endurance championship , admitted driving his car at 93mph along a 60mph section of the A75 near Annan , Dumfries and Galloway . |
| 9 | You will have to wait until he starts drawing his pension before getting yours , if you are his ‘ dependant ’ . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State would , at that time ( 1981/82 ) , not have considered using his default powers if , for example , a school failed to offer a modern language ( other than English ) . |
| 11 | Was he being indescribably presumptuous even to suppose that Sir Philip might consider allowing his only daughter to share her life with a man who could pay for little more than the bare necessities ? |
| 12 | One is left wondering if he would enjoy seeing his profile by Palliardi on the library façade . |
| 13 | . When he starts bringing his bench and stuff down here Barry and I 'm gon na . |
| 14 | But he 's not a gentleman you 'd expect to find using his fists . |
| 15 | One other Fulmar pilot , Sub Lt. R.F. Walker flying No. 2 to Gardner , reported seeing his fire hit a Bf110 , following which he attacked a Ju87 which disappeared into cloud pouring smoke . |
| 16 | Preston stopped stamping his feet . |
| 17 | And as regards modern philosophy , in 1868 , before the summons to Basle , he had actually considered writing his doctoral dissertation on Kant , although he subsequently rejected the subject as unsuitable . |
| 18 | In my book the only time a manager should consider resigning is when he starts believing his own programme notes . |
| 19 | Lorenzo Mancarelli finishes writing his letter . |
| 20 | But the taxidermy process would have been an expensive business and would have included soaking his skin in tan pits for 14 days , scraping and sandpapering his body , paying the barber for shaving him and cutting his toe nails and one final payment of a shilling for a strong cork . |
| 21 | It comes as some surprise , therefore , to hear one of the men likely to benefit turning his nose up at the prospect of winning a ‘ cheap cap ’ . |
| 22 | His comments came a day after his partner Stephen Boler said he would consider selling his 30pc shareholding in the club — but not without Swales 's permission . |
| 23 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |
| 24 | He managed three points in 1976 driving his own Copersucar Ford , 11 in 1977 , 17 in 1978 , 1 in 1979 , 3 in 1980 and absolutely nothing in 1981 , the year when he finally stopped racing his own cars and quit F1 . |
| 25 | He said nothing more for a while , leaving Ellie to stand waiting his instructions as he walked slowly round the room , as if to make sure nothing else had been violated . |
| 26 | Before he can open his mouth he gets a simple instruction from each of us , so he stands switching his gaze from her to me and back again like he 's at a tennis match . |
| 27 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |
| 28 | Bert took this seriously , stopped wearing his goggles and suffered partial blindness caused by the glare from the welding torch . |
| 29 | In the end I stopped sharing his bed altogether . |
| 30 | We 're on Sixth Avenue , puffing on a prosaic perfecto and minding our own business — when John turns down Twenty-Second Street , breaks into a run , and starts loosening his pants … |