Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 84 for 2 , Mr Beesley , ’ I would shout as I passed him snoozing in the sun beneath the gangling wisteria . |
| 2 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 3 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 4 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 5 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 6 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember him sitting by the fire all wrapped up an' coughing . ’ |
| 9 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 10 | His door opened and closed , quietly , but not secretively , and I heard him going down the stairs . |
| 11 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 12 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
| 13 | and each time I watched him talking to the drivers |
| 14 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 15 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 16 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 17 | Later , I took him riding through the woods . |
| 18 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
| 19 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 20 | Cos if he had a red coat , with a little white patch on it I see him walking round the village . |
| 21 | According to the historian Eusebius , when the Emperor Constantine ( c. 280 – 337 ) became a Christian in the early fourth century , his triumph over the enemies of the Church , represented as a dragon , was depicted in a scene at the entrance to the imperial palace which showed him trampling upon the beast . |
| 22 | Addled by the speed of events which sent him scurrying from The Hague , the erstwhile British ambassador , Sir Neville Bland warned that : |
| 23 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 24 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 25 | He was shooting a commercial for Canon , who photographed him posing against the Harley Davidson which , quite by chance , they spotted parked outside a Diner . |
| 26 | You watch him going down the street to the harbour . |
| 27 | He got up , flung the strange , savage robe around his shoulders again and went into the other room where she heard him shouting through the door " Is that little matter sorted out yet , at the Dog and Gun ? " |
| 28 | When , after an hour , she heard him coming up the stairs she pulled the sheets tightly around her , and then relaxed . |
| 29 | He went out without another word , and she heard him going down the stairs . |
| 30 | She heard him running down the stairs , problems at his heels . |