Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick 's career has seen him playing against the country 's best , even though he always remained a village player at heart . |
| 2 | For his father Andre Hanscombe — whose love for his son has kept him going amidst the grief — it will be a time calling on all his reserves of courage . |
| 3 | Mr Shepherd appeared in my office with my son — said he 'd found him roaming about the factory . |
| 4 | Endill ran to the door expecting to see him crashing into the sea but when he looked down , saw him clinging to a wooden beam sticking out of the rock . |
| 5 | He may have found him sleeping in the porch . |
| 6 | ‘ Later , I went to watch him sparring in the ring . |
| 7 | Try to stop him falling down the road . |
| 8 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 9 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 10 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 11 | Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now ! |
| 12 | Teacher never had a moment 's peace with him , and I could n't count the number of times I 've seen him waiting outside the headmaster 's study . |
| 13 | He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist . |
| 14 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 15 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 16 | That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever . |
| 17 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |