Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] he [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time .
2 Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea .
3 Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’
4 Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years .
5 Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department .
6 The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day .
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