Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] he [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeking to emulate him in every way , he decided he too would have a multiplicity of spouses . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to see him about a play I have written . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , while attempting to hit him with a bat . |
| 4 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 5 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 6 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 7 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
| 8 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |
| 10 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 11 | You 're going to knock on his door and you 're going to bring him outside and you 're going to put him in the car . ’ |
| 12 | Howard wakes up in hospital with two people waiting to question him about a robbery and a dead body . |
| 13 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to steam him in a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 15 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 16 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
| 17 | Brain power and horse power is going to take him to the top of the sport . |
| 18 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 19 | Miguel 's going to ask him on the night — out of the blue . |
| 20 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 21 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 22 | This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her . |
| 23 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 24 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 25 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 26 | Why did n't Luke damn well help him , instead of threatening to throw him off the film ? |
| 27 | She lashed out suddenly with her crop , intending to hit him in the face . |
| 28 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 29 | ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre . |
| 30 | She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak . |