Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 2 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 3 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 4 | He tried to break free , but he could not ; there were too many of them , manhandling him along the narrow jetty . |
| 5 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 6 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 9 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 10 | He could feel his strength returning ; could feel the brandy coursing through his veins , filling him with a warm glow . |
| 11 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 12 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 13 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 14 | Passing him in the cramped area of the cockpit , her bare leg brushed against the coarseness of his knee . |
| 15 | It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace . |
| 16 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 17 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 18 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 19 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 20 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |
| 21 | ( Harry Chapman was no longer with the club , ill health forcing him to an early retirement . ) |
| 22 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |
| 23 | A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released . |
| 24 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is suing him in the High Court to recover the money , which includes a £500,000 overdraft . |
| 25 | ‘ I fancy you , Matt , ’ Georgina said , leading him through the crowded room . |
| 26 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 27 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 28 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 29 | They introduced Mr Parretti to CLBN in 1987 , presenting him as a potential investor in their company . |
| 30 | The family continued to play a significant part in Anglo-French affairs : in January 1317 , Jean , sire de Fiennes , wrote to Edward II as his loyal vassal in Ponthieu , informing him of a rumoured scheme for the partition of the kingdom of France on the death of Louis X. His motive was not entirely altruistic , for Fiennes was a chief ally and supporter of the rebellious Robert of Artois , and hoped for English aid in the form of ships with which to enter Calais and St Omer . |