Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch . |
| 2 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 3 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 4 | For ten minutes he becomes a wandering minstrel , illuminated by the bass-player following him with a torch from the stage . |
| 5 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 6 | In January 1945 he was arrested in Krakow by the Gestapo but managed to escape from the transport taking him to a concentration camp . |
| 7 | The detectives who were not detectives after all stepped forward to meet him , one of them shaking hands , the other slapping him on the back . |
| 8 | This looked promising : 3 He is produced by fusion , there is an excessive abundance of the substance in volcanic gases so maybe here was the evidence staring him in the face that fusion is taking place among the volcanic rocks . |
| 9 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 10 | Again , Atrakhasis was warned , the god instructing him in a dream to build a boat , take on board his family and animals , and explain his action to his fellow men as a punishment inflicted upon him which would bring benefit to them . |
| 11 | As he did he drove a fist hard into Connelly 's face , the impact propelling him across the kitchen . |
| 12 | The Woman smashing him to the ground and beating at his face . |
| 13 | He did not recognize the man approaching him in a quiet corner of the drawing room , but feared he might be a drunken bore . |
| 14 | My father was taken from his clerking job at Flatford Mill to go to London and look after his brother , a local merchant with interests in the City providing him with a post . |
| 15 | The letter informing him of the sentence pronounced upon him was headed derisively : ‘ The Holy Synod to Nestorius the new Jew . ’ |
| 16 | Occasionally the public relations executive of an organisation is also that organisation 's spokesman but , except for promotional and marketing campaigns where the PRO is indeed the expert in the area , the provision of an obvious intermediary can lead to the viewer seeing him as a buffer for those who might more usefully have appeared . |
| 17 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |