Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 2 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 3 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 4 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know how to thank you , ’ she said , giving him back the blanket . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 7 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 8 | ‘ No , they be taking him up the churchyard to see if ‘ e likes it . ’ |
| 9 | He was nearly always right , too , so very seldom did anyone get the chance of really taking him down a peg or two . |
| 10 | Said what 's wrong , he says Raymond I 'm taking him down the Grosvenor Road and there 's fucking old Paddy , we used to work with him , standing outside the f you know opposite The Royal ? |
| 11 | Iris had an American cousin staying with her and had been too busy dragging him round every art gallery and stately home in the county to have time for her . |
| 12 | ‘ Easy now , ’ he said , handing him back the pencil . |
| 13 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 14 | Then Pettit took a photograph and , he claimed , Enos attacked him — throwing him over a fence and punching him in a headlock . |