Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 2 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 3 | Jennie told Katharine to keep pushing with her inside leg and holding him with the outside rein to stop him walking forward . |
| 4 | And if he 'd come across any other married woman who kept on buying her husband horses and dogs and fishing tackle and pointing him towards the open countryside while she stayed in town , then he 'd have known exactly what to think . |
| 5 | The blood of circumcision , just like the blood of animal sacrifice , could also be viewed as cleansing the boy of his mother 's blood and acting as a rite of separation , differentiating him from the female , and allying him with the male community . |
| 6 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 7 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 8 | Now the mammal is back in captivity , Russian officials plan to cash in on his international fame by building ‘ a floating oceanarium ’ and towing him around the Mediterranean tourist resorts . |
| 9 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 10 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 11 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 12 | Not with the shaft of a golf club driven through his neck and pinning him to the wooden floor . |
| 13 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |