Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [v-ing] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torquil Cowan , head of Longfield comprehensive in Darlington , has already written to some parents voicing his concern about the number of children roving the streets . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |
| 3 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 4 | Quite soon after the execution of Charles I , for example , many artists rendering his final moments , show Charles almost as a " Christ figure " , a martyr . |
| 5 | Endill tried to hack his way through but there were too many plants blocking his way . |
| 6 | Philip , understandably , selects those passages revealing his uneasy situation in the house of Cis and Elfed . |
| 7 | Karajan was by instinct and training a man of the theatre and it is another of those paradoxes surrounding his career that this central aspect of his art has to some extent been obscured from the general public gaze . |
| 8 | He has a few more shocks coming his way yet . |
| 9 | Although prepared , within two months of his capture , to address leaflets to his former comrades explaining his motives , he steadfastly refused to appeal to Red Army soldiers to desert : he wanted them to revolt , in arms , against Stalin 's tyranny . |
| 10 | The Everton manager , in the wake of Monday night 's 2-1 Merseyside derby triumph , then issued a hands-off warning to any clubs tracking his match-winning Geordie genius . |
| 11 | Together they negotiate a solution to the problem , the first speaker A asking the second B to repair the term by making it more specific , and the second several times repairing his own explanation to make it clearer ( capitals indicate stress ) : |
| 12 | The Doctor spent several minutes inspecting his hat , turning it over in his hands and picking off specks of dust . |
| 13 | Alesi had proved troublesome for Berger in the early stages after the Austrian had made a poor start and then spent several laps working his way past the Ferrari and Schumacher . |
| 14 | At this stage he no longer had any Americans holding his hand . |
| 15 | Theda responded instantly , herself aflame , her own arms gripping his chest , her hands running up and down his strong back , as if she must feel all of him at once . |
| 16 | You have to be very clever to win races these days , and I 'm totally convinced and so is everybody else here that Nigel will win enough races providing his car is quick enough and reliable enough to win a world championship . |
| 17 | It would be quite easy for a pupil to swipe in several cards allowing his friends to truant . |