Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 2 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 3 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 4 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 5 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 6 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 7 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 8 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 9 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 10 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 11 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 12 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 13 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 14 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 15 | Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep . |
| 16 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 17 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 18 | The ice crown was waiting for him in the city , protected only by the ghosts . |
| 19 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 20 | Curtis , the local CID sergeant , was waiting for him in the police station . |
| 21 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 22 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 23 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 24 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 25 | Then Amanda had lain on the bed and made a few suggestions which insulted his experience ; he 'd fumbled hurriedly with zips and cuff buttons , his Calvinistic conscience retreating into its corner , and then exultation was running through him like the roar of the crowd the night Jim Watt had won his title . |
| 26 | Patrizia Valesio was staring at him with the expression of one who is not to be put off by interruptions . |
| 27 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 28 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 29 | Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair . |
| 30 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |