Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 2 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |
| 3 | She pictured him working up a sweat . |
| 4 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 5 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |