Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pay him to put icing on the cake , and tie him to us . |
| 2 | But if it helps him to start leading from the front again , a trip back in time will be well worthwhile . |
| 3 | I remember him finding going to the school . |
| 4 | She tickled him briefly , making him fold sitting into the cot . |
| 5 | He hates sitting on the beach ; does nothing but moan . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Tonight he goes swimming with the PT teacher in charge . |
| 7 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 8 | ‘ AWOPBOPALOOBOPAWOMBAMBOOM ! ’ declares the bloke with the panstick and mascara , as he goes frugging around the piano , flashes his gorgeous doll-eyes and makes some astonishing claims about a girl named Daisy . |
| 9 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 10 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 11 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 12 | One of the offences to which Gavin pleaded guilty was a specimen charge of £100 , an amount he admitted taking from the account once or twice a month between March and October 1991 . |
| 13 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 14 | From the handgrip he found lying by the door , he pulled out his lightweight kimono and put in on . |
| 15 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 16 | Wray is first seen being chauffeur-driven in his limousine and from that moment until he lies dying on the floor of a Pullman car with a bullet in his stomach and uttering the words ‘ Never call a sucker ’ his performance for Daugherty was one in which he never stepped out of character and never eased his ‘ taut , cat-like , steel-wire tenseness ’ . |
| 17 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 18 | He stopped thinking about the amount of jam he was taking and leant back in his chair . |
| 19 | in case we 're out a bit longer , I said , Tony said we could leave him out there , but like he said if he starts weeing on the carpet |
| 20 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |
| 21 | He practised running on the spot . |
| 22 | In the next record gap he came trundling into the studio to tell me that the phone call was from the bride 's stepmother . |
| 23 | Some hours later he came striding into the station-master 's office to collect me . |
| 24 | So apparently last night he came knocking on the door . |
| 25 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 26 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 27 | He came rushing across the garden while she sewed and she called out to him to come and try the sleeves . |
| 28 | He studied acting under the GI Bill and after touring in summer stock he began landing parts in television as heavies . |
| 29 | I 've had some of these trees lopped , " he added peering into the twilight outside . |
| 30 | He advised finishing with the architect in Manchester and " getting a local man in " . |