Example sentences of "[v-ing] him in [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 2 | However , observing him in the classroom he had noticed his immature behaviour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Watching him in the market she saw how popular he was , and certainly he had an eye for the best produce on offer , but when it came to the exchange of cash he parted with it too readily . |
| 5 | She had left London without seeing Newman , telling him in a letter she was staying at her sister 's place in Southwold further up the Suffolk coast . |
| 6 | Her body moved against his , leaving him in no doubt what she meant , whether he remembered or not . |
| 7 | Lord Denning MR said : Every member of the community is entitled to carry on any trade or business he chooses and in such manner as he thinks most desirable in his own interests , so long as he does nothing unlawful : with the consequence that any contract which interferes with the free exercise of his trade or business , by restricting him in the work he may do for others , or the arrangements which he may make with others , is a contract in restraint of trade . |
| 8 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |