Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He should carry on if he wants to and I for one will go on using him — he 's the best ! ’ |
| 2 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 3 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 4 | After the deconstruction of my eidetic capability , Gyggle had insisted that I go on seeing him . |
| 5 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 6 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 7 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 8 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 9 | During these pauses he would leer in the hope that his lady friend would fill in the gaps , thereby allowing him to save his energy for later . |
| 10 | The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent . |
| 11 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 12 | He would n't chase her after reading the letter she had left for him , politely thanking him for his hospitality and saying she was returning to Palma to complete her work before returning to England . |
| 13 | Adjuring Theda , in the prettiest way , to wait for her here , Miss Merchiston then escorted Mr Quatt to the front door , presumably bidding him a fond farewell in the sickeningly sugary tone she had chosen to adopt towards him . |
| 14 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 15 | I could n't have Cal thinking this creature had anything to do with me — I 'd have to explain I was only using him to threaten Mum and Dad with . |
| 16 | She thinks that she 's merely bringing him down to meet Jim and me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Mr Lawler will be upset that I 'm only bringing him eight brace , but I did my best , ’ Maggie said as they pulled away . |
| 18 | Both said the police paid scant attention to Mr Mackenzie 's ill-health , only allowing him to get a jacket at his wife 's insistence . |
| 19 | But the next day was doleful : Mr Evans in a bad mood because he had eaten too much and Auntie Lou tiptoeing about for fear of making things worse and so annoying him further . |
| 20 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 21 | He is often very callous to Lennie and is constantly reminding him what his life could be like without Lennie . |
| 22 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |
| 23 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 24 | , I 'm only winding him up . |
| 25 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 26 | Len possessed that amazing ability that is sometimes found in footballers , to ‘ hang ’ in the air for a fraction of a second , so enabling him to obtain greater power and better direction from the ensuing header . |
| 27 | He conferred with Willys , who duly informed Thurloe of his whereabouts , having first warned Ormonde to change his lodgings , so enabling him to keep one jump ahead of the pursuit . |
| 28 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 29 | He had the door open and his back to her when , her brother 's hat obviously catching his eye , he halted , stretched out a hand to it , then turned to where Leith , antagonistically-expressioned , stood , obviously wanting him out of her flat . |
| 30 | As she approached , one of them broke ranks and went to stand over Edward , apparently addressing him . |