Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because , ’ he said , mopping his plate industriously with a piece of bread , ‘ when you 've been asleep for — no , I do n't want to know — you 're bound to feel a bit peckish when you wake up . ’ |
| 2 | Again Grant took out his transmitter and contacted Springfield , keeping his voice barely above a whisper . |
| 3 | The tableau came to life , slowly at first , each horseman urging his mount forward into a walk , then a gentle trot . |
| 4 | The Iraqi air force attempted little in the way of a co-ordinated response to the allied air assault , and it appeared that Saddam Hussein was intent on preserving his aircraft either for a later stage of the campaign or for the duration of the entire war . |
| 5 | That has set Crosby into conflict with Murray and left Armstrong kicking his heels instead of a football . |
| 6 | Perhaps over confident , his application to the first set seemed to lack the determination he had applied in their previous meetings and as the first set ebbed away 6–3 , Wilkinson found difficulty getting his game together in a slipping match . |
| 7 | An American flees to Amsterdam , depicting his life there as a chain of sadism and serial killing . |
| 8 | ‘ Later , ’ he said , resting his cigar carefully in an ashtray . |
| 9 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 10 | Assessing his father retrospectively with a mixture of filial compassion and uncompromising lucidity , Nizan remarked : My father depicted culture as power and wealth , as the one thing that he did not have and without which he could not become a bourgeois . |
| 11 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 12 | The flat , as yet unsought , no more than a vague possibility among others , would assume dimensions , location , a horribly plausible reality in which he found himself arranging his pictures carefully on a non-existent wall , thinking over the disposal of his household goods , the exact location of his stereo system . |