Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 2 | On another occasion , after the sessions for the recording of Der Rosenkavalier had been completed one January afternoon in 1982 , I recall him rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic in two works by Tchaikovsky , the Sixth Symphony and the Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet . |
| 3 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 4 | I remembered him using the word malfunction , ‘ a surgically induced malfunction ’ , that was it . |
| 5 | I when I see him when I see , George does a lot of housekeeping when I see him clearing the bed I say oh goodness look book . |
| 6 | Steve went quietly into the kitchen , she heard him opening the refrigerator door . |
| 7 | She watched him sifting the batch of cards , momentarily intrigued . |
| 8 | It is the dreadful Lillibet who discovers Harry 's secret when she finds him raiding the fridge one night wearing his wife 's underwear . |
| 9 | She saw him passing the day in a cloud of dreams . |
| 10 | Detective Constable Keetly was one of several officers who saw him searching the banks of the river near the spot where the car disappeared . |
| 11 | The appellant was detained by a booking clerk who saw him putting the coins into the machine . |
| 12 | She shuddered as she felt him unfastening the catch of her bikini-top , her heart starting to pound with a heavy beat as the pressure of his kiss became fiercer and more demanding . |
| 13 | She visualised him drawing the sleeping-bag around him . |
| 14 | Biting back a sob , she left him shaking the paella pan and went outside to the terrace where the air was fresher . |
| 15 | It sounded suspiciously like a dismissal , but she made no comment as she left him finishing the task of putting away saddles and bridles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Though we find him joining the cut and thrust of conference debate , or delivering polemical lectures , we also glimpse a man apart , and in an intellect of such stature , it is tempting to describe him as aloof . |
| 18 | The officers guarding him stopped him reaching the governor just in time . |