Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , he had sensed a presence following him on the trail . |
| 2 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 4 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 5 | He became angry and frustrated , having struggled so hard to rise above his humble background to become a physician , and the marriage he had seen as his link to success was more like a chain binding him to the spoilt daughter of the man whose position he envied . |
| 6 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 7 | There was n't much he could do about Preston except shout abuse across the garden fence at his nan while she was putting the washing out , but he managed to persuade her it would be a mistake sending him to a Catholic school . |
| 8 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 9 | He had seen a face watching him at the window and he had recognized it . |