Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 2 | From Friday evening to Tuesday , he was at Shamley Green , and although he tried to avoid visiting people or seeing his neighbours his weekends were often occupied , which meant that a fortnight might elapse before he could get on with his own work . |
| 3 | ‘ Experiences , relationships etc are considered to be supportive when the individual involved sees the experience tin terms of his values , goals , expectations , and aspirations ) as contributing to or maintaining his sense of personal worth and importance . ’ |
| 4 | Part of this employment was walking over mountains and fells seeking sites for making his drawings or pursuing his botanic and geological interests . |
| 5 | Fr Leonardo Boff , a renowned Brazilian liberation theologist condemned by the Vatican to a year 's silence in 1985 [ see p. 33823 ] , was banned by the Vatican with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 , from preaching or pursuing his theological teaching at the university in Petrópolis , 50 km north-east of Rio de Janeiro . |
| 6 | He increased his pace so that Mapleton , already out of breath , had to choose between talking or using his energy to keep up . |
| 7 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 8 | ‘ Trouble ’ being dirtying or tearing his best clothes , or kicking the soles off his school shoes in the field on the way home . |
| 9 | The tall , lanky merchant was nervous and ill at ease , his hand constantly fluttering to his mouth or patting his greasy hair . |
| 10 | Aziz spent most of his time skulking about the corridors , snarling at people or banging his pail loudly immediately before and immediately after daily prayers . |
| 11 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 12 | When not working , he was playing sport , busy with his hands or training his dog . |
| 13 | The investigators suggested that the combination of communication deviance and critical , intrusive or guilt-inducing affect from parents meant that their adolescent child had ‘ little recourse through communication with them for exploring , clarifying , or correcting his feelings of unworthiness , rejection , or isolation ’ . |
| 14 | A manager who lacks some important information will be in a weak position for making decisions or urging his own views . |
| 15 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 16 | ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security . |
| 17 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 18 | ‘ So how long have you been waiting ? ’ she enquired , refusing to give him the satisfaction of rising to his bait or confirming his accurate character diagnosis . |
| 19 | The subcontractor then has to make the difficult choice of continuing work in the hope of being paid , or withdrawing his labour and reducing the probability of ultimate payment . |
| 20 | So erm if , if it was er if it was a matter of oh bankrolling him out to wherever it was or supplementing his own resources okay , but the , the experience and I mean the personal experience as well as the er the skills experience |
| 21 | He commented aloud , with a delighted laugh , ‘ You know , I 'm more and more convinced that the illustrious Don , the genial thinker , was n't taking a revenge on his family , or plotting the downfall of the house of Beatillo , or shaking the structure of property and power in these parts , or thumbing his nose at you-know-who . |
| 22 | ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . |
| 23 | To see him Fred Astaire-ing in white tie and tails down stairways which light at the touch of a toe , or pelvising his way through lurex-decked rock and roll routines , is to sit at the ringside of every trapped soul 's private escape hatch . |
| 24 | His characteristic method is to make a statement so large or vague as to be practically meaningless , then to qualify that statement by explaining what he does not mean by it , and finally to outline the reasons why he does not propose to discuss matters arising from it ; he apologizes , at this point , for wandering off course but , instead of clarifying or refining his original proposition , he classifies the arguments of those who might object to it and proceeds to deal with their objections . |
| 25 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you ever do that again , ’ he said , without looking at me or breaking his stride . |
| 27 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |
| 28 | On 20 January 1301 he met his Parliament at Lincoln , which had been summoned to consider the reports of the commissioners for disafforestment , and asked from the magnates a declaration that he could ratify the perambulations without injuring the Crown or violating his coronation oath . |
| 29 | The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement . |
| 30 | While ploughing or sowing his field , he was still pushing his enquiries into the operations of nature . |