Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a healthy respect for your opponent , you will thrust forwards on a diagonal line that takes you out of his centre-line , before twisting to face him square-on . |
| 2 | While not thinking it fitting to ask him questions about Ven , however , Fabia was wary of asking more than surface polite questions of Lubor himself . |
| 3 | He also knows that , since therapists have to eat and support their families just like everyone else , it is going to cost him money to do so . |
| 4 | So insurance on the new Ford Fiesta car he had bought to drive his disabled wife about was going to cost him £750 double what he would have had to pay before the accident . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're going to call him Jesse James , ’ said manager Ian Doyle . |
| 6 | This is how there is no getting at Stavrogin , and how getting to know him proceeds . |
| 7 | So he 's retired into the kitchen , of all places , and we 're having to feed him people to meet one by one , like birds bringing back food for their young . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 9 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , a day or two perhaps , ’ she said , bending to kiss him goodnight . |
| 11 | If one of this teamleader 's clients said that another dealer had been trying to sell him stock , he would bellow : " What 's his name ? " |
| 12 | All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps Dennis also lunged a little bit and Fitzroy was maybe trying to protect him self . |
| 14 | I 'll go on trying to teach him things about art . |
| 15 | In fact we used to send him up something rotten , Angela Scoular and I. We 'd make funny faces at him from behind the camera , trying to make him corpse . |
| 16 | Offering to buy him breakfast out of town is the device I use to hasten the leaving process . |
| 17 | Tony Reynolds runs British Motorsports for the Disabled and was planning to keep him company on the journey . |
| 18 | Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week . |
| 19 | Maybe he 'll stay with AT&T on Bob Kavner 's team working to make him king . |