Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 2 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 3 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 4 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 5 | BBC TV issued an apology to Saracens lock Mark Langley after wrongly linking him with an incident that put Gloucester 's Marcus Hannaford in hospital at the weekend . |
| 6 | I think we 're walking round , I think 's probably more , more efficient than perhaps inviting him to a meeting . |
| 7 | New dating techniques had been developed and these were used on Piltdown Man so exposing him as a fraud . |
| 8 | I 'm not using him as an excuse or anything , but I do feel he 's got a lot to do with the way my life 's been . |
| 9 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 10 | ‘ The Methodists never made much headway with the Machin family , ’ said Rose , still keeping her distance and not looking him in the eye . |
| 11 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 12 | He blamed the suppliers of the chemicals and British Steel , who contracted him to do the work , for not warning him about the safety procedure . |
| 13 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 14 | He recalled that he was overjoyed when he heard that Walter Luff was staying on until 1954 , thus providing him with the chance that he needed . |
| 15 | David was 4½ when he first went to school and not unlike most mothers Mrs Jones was upset at not having him around the house . |
| 16 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |
| 17 | No see I must admit I wonder whether your Mum will find too much of a handful she 's already telling him off a lot you know ? |
| 18 | His hatred of the Empress , whom he never forgave for producing a male heir and thus depriving him of the succession to the throne , together with his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘ reactionary powers ’ , led him at times into very deep waters indeed . |
| 19 | Singing the national anthem they pushed John through the streets , finally dumping him in the Town Mill pond . |
| 20 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 21 | It seemed that once people met him they decided they were better off having him as a friend than an enemy . |
| 22 | So while Gilbert tried to entice Bissell to talk further , and Bissell kept silent , still watching him across the room , Rohmer saw the promise in those night-black eyes … and he began to lay his own plans . |
| 23 | Alternatively the ‘ success ’ in ( 37 ) could have been the product of into him by evolution , thereby providing him with the power to bring about the desired result himself . |
| 24 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 25 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 26 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 27 | I was particularly unconvinced by the scene where they go haring round the countryside in search of Josef Locke ( Ned Beatty ) and end up finding him in a pub . |
| 28 | Because any religion must , at the root , be dependent upon at least one unprovable assumption , it is utterly wrong for any person to instruct a child about ‘ god ’ or religion without also leaving him in no doubt that the instruction is so based . |
| 29 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 30 | His owner , Jeremy Young admitted repeatedly shooting him with an air rifle at his home in Princes Risborough . |