Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
2 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
3 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
4 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
5 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
6 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |
7 | Ho was looking at him now with a sneer on his face . |
8 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
9 | There had always been a trap waiting for him somewhere along the way when Isambard loosed the reins a little , and it would be the same now . |
10 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
11 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
12 | ‘ What , you mean to be a kind of private prompter , whispering at him right through the play ? ’ |
13 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
14 | Was it his fancy that he saw Phil Jordan staring at him morosely through an upper window ? |
15 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |
16 | She ends up talking about him though in the park . |