Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial assistance out of public funds should be available for every individual ( not corporations ) who , without it , would suffer an undue financial burden in properly pursuing or defending his or her legal rights ; |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Service courses , to judge by what one hears , are a frequent source of irritation on both sides , with the provider unhappy about cannibalizing or trivializing his or her discipline and the consumer complaining that the course is not geared or geared down to his or her needs . |
| 7 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 8 | He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set . |
| 9 | The lean wind grips him , twisting and pulling his hair . |
| 10 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 11 | In 1961 he took off for New York city to pay his respects to his latest hero , hobo and folk singer Woody Guthrie , then dying of Huntington 's Chorea ; and he returned to Minneapolis later that year a-singing and a-playing , mumbling and slurring his words , just like Woody himself . |
| 12 | By intensifying and controlling his livestock and introducing arable crops , the farmer must plan carefully to ensure that the natural cycle of return continues to operate evenly over the whole of his land . |
| 13 | Maxim left him cackling and slopping his tea with mirth . |
| 14 | The policeman sat on the tailboard and shone the torch into the covered area , at the same time wheezing and catching his breath . |
| 15 | He knew he was dying and retained his dignity to the end ; it came on 13 March 1967 , and the cricketing world , quite simply , was devastated . |
| 16 | He was opening and shutting his mouth and licking his lips , much as a cat does when something disgusts it . |
| 17 | John keeps opening and shutting his mouth like a fish . |
| 18 | No doubt he is oozing and oiling his way into her favour . |
| 19 | Vardon owed his success to the simplicity of his golf , using a smooth , rhythmic , upright swing when driving and keeping his head absolutely still when making his putts . |
| 20 | Dommer had been following the exchange from his bunk , where he was obsessively stripping and reassembling his flamer . |
| 21 | ‘ Let's trace our route on the maps , ’ said Caspar , dismounting and tethering his horse to the low branch of a leafless Tree . |
| 22 | He burst out laughing and put his arm around her shoulder . |
| 23 | Even now , as she smiled at her son 's antics — he was laughing and clapping his little hands together and making mischievous faces at Cissie , who adored him — memories of Tyler besieged her heart . |
| 24 | The apothecary was sitting at his small desk under the open window but rose , laughing and clapping his hands as he recognised Corbett . |
| 25 | ‘ I have not ! ’ said Franca , laughing and imitating his Irish intonation . |
| 26 | Hasan , holding tightly to Rafiq 's hand , was laughing and thrashing his body like a swimmer in difficulties |
| 27 | Lexandro rolled across rubble , tearing and soiling his silks , yet retrieving the mask . |
| 28 | Now it 's finally ready to happen , with Arnold Schwarzenegger musing whether to donate his presence or not , while two teams of screenwriters work feverishly to November deadlines , and four top directors — including Paul ‘ Basic Instinct ’ Verhoeven , Peter ‘ Bill And Ted 's Bogus Journey ’ Hewitt and George ‘ Mad Max ’ Miller — politely wait for the Terminator 's nod . |
| 29 | He collapsed forward again in a fit of coughing that racked his whole body . |
| 30 | Regression therapy does not play a role in all hypnotic treatment : if the patient wishes to give up smoking or to pass his driving test , for instance , then regression does not come into it . |