Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kiss had thrilled and excited her , and the brief time she had spent in his arms had only increased her desire , leaving her aching to know him better . |
| 2 | The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you . |
| 3 | At five past two Franco took the unprecedented step of refusing to serve him any more wine . |
| 4 | Kate quickly shrugged it off herself , not wanting to give him any chance of coming near her . |
| 5 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 6 | ‘ I know where he 's staying and I 'm going to tackle him this evening . ’ |
| 7 | We 're going to set him free in a day or two . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 're going to set him free tomorrow , ’ the child said gleefully . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to buy him some flower seeds , ’ said Dot . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's my dad 's birthday today — I 'm going to wish him many happy returns . ’ |
| 11 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
| 12 | I 'm not going to use him any more . |
| 13 | Well I was going to put him some dinner out and he 'll have to heat it up again I think . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 15 | So if he wants a hundred thousand , for every ten thousand it 's one pound fifty seven , it 's going to cost him fifteen pounds seventy , and add two pounds , it 's seventeen seventy . |
| 16 | ‘ And you wo n't be over-horsed , not since you are going to ride him side-saddle . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm going to call him Caliban . |
| 18 | He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair . |
| 19 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 20 | ‘ She was going to have him all to herself for at least three years , probably more like five , and a part of him for ever … ’ . |
| 21 | William and his mother were supposed to be going to join him later . |
| 22 | He could hardly stand still for the two minutes it took to slip them over his blouse and he shouted at her to be quick , that Ferdinando was waiting to take him rabbit-shooting . |
| 23 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 24 | It 's going to make him worse . |
| 25 | I told my grandfather I was going to prove him wrong . ’ |
| 26 | Moreover , the cost was beginning to worry him more and more . |
| 27 | But later in the afternoon the light clothing he was wearing left him ill-prepared for the chilling mist and rain that slid down the mountainsides , poignantly recorded on the damp film found in his camera . |
| 28 | Teena had phoned her husband , warning him police would be coming to see him that night . |
| 29 | His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) . |
| 30 | He gave vent to his anger and lambasted the shipping manager for not having alerted him that Clarion Call was overdue . |