Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] he [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 2 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 3 | Tony did n't have time to waste booking him as a support act or doing a club circuit or anything like that . |
| 4 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 5 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 6 | ‘ But if he is n't going to bother , I do n't think it 's fair to the other players to keep choosing him for the reserves . |
| 7 | When a person is detained in respect of more than one offence it is permissible to delay bringing him before the custody officer until the above conditions are satisfied in respect of all the offences ( but see paragraph 11.4 ) . |
| 8 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |