Example sentences of "[vb -s] him come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony gets under the bed when he sees him coming . |
| 2 | so you see she sees him coming and going , she sees the blind people coming and going , so hence the kind of yeah , so is that 's it |
| 3 | After that race his family remembers him coming home with badly bruised and torn feet and looking like a skeleton . |
| 4 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 5 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 6 | Bonhoeffer , the theologian to whom I have previously referred , once remarked in one of his books : ‘ When Christ calls a person , he bids him come and die . ’ |
| 7 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |