Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to set him free in a day or two . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 're going to set him free tomorrow , ’ the child said gleefully . |
| 3 | ‘ And you wo n't be over-horsed , not since you are going to ride him side-saddle . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm going to call him Caliban . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I told my grandfather I was going to prove him wrong . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Mr Falk seems to be putting a large proportion of the blame onto doctors for failing to give him proper preventative medical care . |
| 11 | Not bathing for two days was no great inconvenience when he only had himself for company ; not shaving suited him fine when there was no woman to complain of beard burns . |
| 12 | The harder he worked at it , the less success he seemed to be having ; his pain and frustration were combining to make him angry , and he flung the bottle down onto the bed . |
| 13 | Perhaps that was why Father Devlin had volunteered to act as match-maker , preferring to have him married rather than have him fornicate , as he had in the past , with the tinker women passing through the district . |
| 14 | Over some bread and sausage , the two Germans engaged the Russian in chat , trying to keep him awake . |
| 15 | He longed to close them again in sleep , but Elizabeth was trying to keep him awake . |
| 16 | John Hay , seeing Johnson 's fear , talked to him all the time as to a child , trying to keep him cheerful , but this measure only excited Boswell 's scorn , especially when he heard Hay trying to distract Johnson with the antics of the local goats . |
| 17 | Oz formed his face into a solemn mask that would have been funny if Jinny had not been trying to keep him happy . |
| 18 | At night the Sheikha slept in that great plot of a bed with her son in her arms , trying to keep him quiet , allaying his fears and anger . |
| 19 | I was trying to teach him French , as he was finding it hard to keep up with the stream of orders and commands being issued by the staff . |
| 20 | She was still off with Michel , presumably , trying to make him jealous . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're trying to make him jealous ? |