Example sentences of "[vb past] he [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Tom Webster drew him wearing a knee-length sweater , he ensured that , thereafter , all his sweaters were oversized . |
| 2 | His knees between the insides of her thighs , she drew him sliding into her . |
| 3 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 5 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 6 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 7 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 8 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 9 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 10 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |
| 11 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 12 | She caught him looking . |
| 13 | Anne stole a glance at John occasionally , and several times caught him looking intently at her , but each time he looked away quickly . |
| 14 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
| 15 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 16 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 17 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 18 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |
| 19 | The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof . |
| 20 | I caught him jumping up and down , tearing at his hair and wailing ‘ Why me ? |
| 21 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 22 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 23 | She used the tone of voice she had used when he was little and she caught him doing something he had been expressly forbidden to do . |
| 24 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 25 | Sometimes the Captain caught him staring at him fixedly , willing him to get the case under Instruction . |
| 26 | The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look . |
| 27 | ‘ I fink 'e was after pinchin' somefing from yer bag , Sergeant Joe , only I come up an' caught him openin' it . ’ |
| 28 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 29 | Pushing an errant strand of hair from her eyes , she turned to look at him , and found him watching her . |
| 30 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |