Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the manager Allan Clarke was only keeping his word when he let me go to Portsmouth . |
| 2 | ‘ Meanwhile I 'm up here scrimping and saving and keeping his daughter when it 's not really my fault that we 're having a divorce . ’ |
| 3 | I have no reason to believe that my son was contemplating ending his life and he had to my knowledge no enemies . ’ |
| 4 | He left a note explaining his action and it was read out at the inquest . |
| 5 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 6 | Boxer called over his shoulder , cracking his whip as they moved off . |
| 7 | Wishart rubbed his hands together , cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger . |
| 8 | Terry Yorath , the Wales manager , is delaying his selection until he has checked on the fitness of Barry Horne , the Southampton midfielder , who has had a knee injury . |
| 9 | And she , in turn , knowingly and secretly absorbing his stare as she listened to her chattering companions , began to dismiss him as a potential client . |
| 10 | His spine was saved but his knees punched into his chest and he pitched over sideways , scraping his elbow and knocking his head as he rolled on to his shoulder . |
| 11 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 12 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 13 | The solicitor , Gerard Friel , 47 , had been out walking his dog when he was involved in a shouting match with two youths near his home , the High Court in Glasgow heard yesterday . |
| 14 | Jane Davis , prosecuting , had earlier told the court that Orchard , of Farringdon , London , had been walking his dog when he saw the girl in a playground in the King 's Cross area one evening last July . |
| 15 | what he does he , he if he 's walking his dog and he sees you and he passes you he 's got to bust you . |
| 16 | So if it was me walking his dog as he goes by he said we 'll see what , he said we 're rebuilding a new bungalow on the insurance claim . |
| 17 | Puritan and Calvinistic tradition would not approve of actually enjoying such a ceremony and no doubt someone would have pointed out that Ruth first caught Boaz 's eye by uncovering his feet as he slept and lying alongside them . |
| 18 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 19 | Frankie always got away with cheeking his elders but I never did . |
| 20 | He has probably spent as much time developing his tools as he has turning wood . |
| 21 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 22 | Oh , he was covered in dirt and spoke like an actor reciting his lines but he made one mistake . |
| 23 | She turned to the bookcase : ‘ Those were his books , but after he had his stroke he could n't read for any length of time without tiring his eyes and I used to read to him . |
| 24 | Twenty years cleaning up his sty and filling his trough and he 's off . |
| 25 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 26 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 27 | I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or inspected them while they were being fed ; 1 can see him cleaning his rifle in the verandah of his tent , or sitting chatting with my mother by the fire in the evening . |
| 28 | Fran laughed softly , meeting his gaze as she twisted her hips up to his . |
| 29 | What he gave was a chronological narrative , apparently searching his memory as he went along . |
| 30 | Vologsky adjusted himself in his flight couch , flexing his fingers before he gripped the control yoke again and prepared to switch the aircraft back to manual control . |