Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one train starts to move , a passenger gazing through his carriage window , observes movement but is unsure whether it is his own train that is moving or the train on the opposite line . |
| 2 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 3 | Ambassador had a month off from competing for his stud duties , but otherwise his preparation was not much different from any other event horse , with hill work figuring largely in his fittening programme . |
| 4 | The next year , 1965 , he had his choice of three F1 teams competing for his services and chose BRM : as he has said , he wanted to be in a team ‘ where they would n't rush me , a team where I would n't be battling for my place every time I took the grid , a team where I could learn from a man like Graham Hill ’ . |
| 5 | Was n't he enjoying this journey , with two women competing for his attention ? |
| 6 | Only she , of all the women , seemed not to be competing for his attention . |
| 7 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 8 | I need your help , " he said slowly , putting the finishing touches to the snowman he was building for his sister . |
| 9 | Strangely , for a man fighting for sport 's most brutal crown , Bowe finds himself apologising for his obvious lack of aggression in the countdown to his day of destiny . |
| 10 | ‘ In reaching its verdict , the commission accepted Mr Jones has issued a press statement apologising for his participation in the video and that he had been misled and badly advised , but that his actions were irresponsible . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ was what he said , however , apologising for his tears . |
| 12 | They settled with their drinks at the corner table and the young man shook hands with Patrick , apologising for his bad manners . |
| 13 | He was in a curiously elegiac mood , moving soft on silken feet in deference to the sadness in the place , now and then touching a tree or a still-surviving piece of stone in a placating greeting , apparently apologising for his presence . |
| 14 | He 'd disarmed her earlier on by profusely apologising for his role in the near-collision with the Kestrel . |
| 15 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 16 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 17 | he 's fencing off his land |
| 18 | he 's fencing off his land |
| 19 | Though remarkably free from bitterness , the sergeant had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent , even allowing for his love of literature . |
| 20 | The decision as to whether or not to proceed is always made by the originator , thus allowing for his or her growth . |
| 21 | The other boy , David , was also puzzling about his experience in the cutting and had resolved to go back and try to find out if he had been dreaming ; somehow he did not feel frightened but more determined to see the tramp and make friends with him . |
| 22 | ‘ There was something touching about his early fashion shots ; a warmth that other photographers failed to capture , ’ Harrison says . |
| 23 | Two titles for this talk had been suggested by the speaker , ‘ singing for his supper ’ and ‘ the gain and pain of being Director of the Daresbury Laboratories ’ . |
| 24 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 25 | LITTLE of the sweaty-palmed tension and frantic chaos of the BBC television commentary box is relayed to the viewers , but Jack Bannister provides a revealing insight into the mechanics of the box , using as his vehicle last summer 's keenly contested Test series . |
| 26 | At the Versace emporium on London 's Bond Street , customers are clamouring for his suggestive leather look . |
| 27 | With several leading opposition figures clamouring for his resignation and calling for a national conference , President Mobutu Sese Seko on March 15 named a new Prime Minister , Mulumba Lukeji , replacing Lunda Bululu who had resigned the day before . |
| 28 | He 'll be fightin' for his European Plan as submitted ; including the UK element . ’ |
| 29 | But Ramsey had an alarming faculty for seeing through his own utterances . |
| 30 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |