Example sentences of "him [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They questioned whether air traffic controllers should have over-ruled Captain Fuchs and insisted on him using a remote runway . |
| 2 | I remembered him using the word malfunction , ‘ a surgically induced malfunction ’ , that was it . |
| 3 | He was a punctilious blighter and I ca n't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous . |
| 4 | Lean times were to follow and three years later we find him using the backs of sheets of his Jedburgh map to draw a privately commissioned plan . |
| 5 | She visualised him drawing the sleeping-bag around him . |
| 6 | Even if he had been aware of the presence , the darkness would have prevented him seeing the man who watched his flat . |
| 7 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 8 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 9 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 10 | Big deal : then it would n't be him helping the police with their inquiries , it 'd be me . |
| 11 | It should have been him nursing a headache , not her . |
| 12 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 13 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
| 14 | That he was a good and strong swimmer I assumed , because his American youth had familiarized him with the sea and coastal sailing ; but , owing to his agoraphobia , I can not exactly imagine him enjoying a high dive . |
| 15 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 16 | It is the dreadful Lillibet who discovers Harry 's secret when she finds him raiding the fridge one night wearing his wife 's underwear . |
| 17 | His attendance has been confirmed by Disney but , as one organiser admitted , ‘ I ca n't see him eating a burger . ’ |
| 18 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 19 | Whatever I thought did n't prevent him maintaining a huge Spanish style mansion in several acres of ground . |
| 20 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 21 | Steve went quietly into the kitchen , she heard him opening the refrigerator door . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't see him storming the barricades . ’ |
| 23 | Peasant farmer weeps as he alleges that ‘ blood test at hotel ’ led to him becoming an unwilling kidney donor Turk tells of transplant ‘ theft ’ . |
| 24 | Erm yes he , I believe it th th that stage was when er he said we 'll put y we 'll pus we 'll find some clothes for you mate erm , I I do recollect P C going I think to the foot of the double bed or near to the base of the double bed where he found a pair of erm jeans and I do remember him checking the pockets erm and then helping or trying like put the jeans on on the man that was lying on the ground still handcuffed . |
| 25 | Yes and erm Thornleys used to be next to it , and it , to see him patting the butter you know and with all the fancy things in the window they would be doing it and er everything was parcelled up then , into brown paper and strong brown , sometimes there would be a bag of sweets pushed in as well for the children . |
| 26 | I remember him banging a glass and shouting ‘ I want to tell a joke . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department . |
| 28 | ’ Mechanically propelled vehicles can be proved by a phrase in a witness statement to the effect ‘ I saw him driving a Jaguar saloon motor car , registered number … ‘ |
| 29 | I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ? |
| 30 | Don Peters knew when he went to the podium that the odds were stacked heavily against him gaining the support of Nate Cocello and the committee . |