Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 2 | Peter was rather doted on in his childhood — with the sort of results you see now . ’ |
| 3 | He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain . |
| 4 | Feeling the fragile shell of the golden ball — more delicate , even , than an egg — he was suddenly plunged back into his dream . |
| 5 | Carey was often discouraged and frustrated but stubbornly pressed on with his translation work , realising its vital importance in the foundation of any missionary venture . |
| 6 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 7 | She nearly said , ‘ And you are larger , ’ but did n't , only looked up into his face and saw that he was not a young man , perhaps even as much as forty . |
| 8 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 9 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 10 | In it he boasts of his gifts to charity , all written down in his little black book : |
| 11 | Ryan had his mask on , only pushed up above his eyes like flying goggles before take-off . |
| 12 | But the true memorial to his father , the empire Xavier de Chavigny had so painstakingly and brilliantly built up during his lifetime — that he had simply allowed to decay . |
| 13 | Billy Sullivan suddenly shaped up to his friend , his clenched fists pawing at the air and his shoulders moving from side to side . |
| 14 | For all the contrived patrician , grouse-moor image , his style perhaps owed more to his American than to his Arran forbears . |
| 15 | One thing , yesterday , we were talking about my wonderful stick man , here he is basically made up of his personality , a number of attitudes and outward behaviour . |
| 16 | ‘ Whatever a man remembers at the last , when he is leaving the body , will be realised by him hereafter ; because that will be what his mind constantly dwelt on during his life . ’ |
| 17 | Marin Marais ( Depardieu ) is cruel and self-obsessed while Sainte Colombe ( Marielle ) is so wrapped up in his own private world of misery , he shuts out his family and the world . |
| 18 | She could n't help remembering the way Josh had looked , that afternoon in the front parlour , so wrapped up in his own misery she could n't reach him . |
| 19 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 20 | But the trouble is he 's gon na be so bogged down with his job problems |
| 21 | When he arrived on the set all hunched up with his head down to his waist , she knew there were going to be problems on the way . |
| 22 | He had to muzzle it now , for example , as the Collector suddenly bounded out of his three-legged chair and away . |
| 23 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 24 | Mathilde 's brother , Prince Napoleon Jerome , better known perhaps under his nickname of ‘ Plon-Plon ’ , was to prove even more of a burden to his cousin , for his activities were political , to such a degree that he seemed frequently to take pleasure in publicly opposing Louis-Napoleon 's policies . |
| 25 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 26 | It was all jumbled up in his own mind . |
| 27 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 28 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 29 | In the first example , Evans makes legitimate but undoubtedly sweeping interpretations which are only substantiated later in his book . |
| 30 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |