Example sentences of "[prep] he [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 'e did ter my dad after 'im workin' fer the man all those years was enough , apart from anyfing else . ’ |
| 2 | Now , however , the Scots were more audacious and belligerent than ever , and Lancaster was the heir to Edward 's problems , particularly as the earl raised quite as many qualms and suspicions as the king did ; there was even talk of him allying with the Scots in order to defeat his English enemies . |
| 3 | And now to think of him listening to the rhapsody of such another youngster as this Merbury , besotted as they all were on their paragon , Hotspur ! |
| 4 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 5 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 6 | Nutty thought of him sleeping with the chestnut mare … |
| 7 | When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life . |
| 8 | She remembered vividly the sight of him crying in the car that night , and she still did n't understand what that had been about . |
| 9 | There were only ladders between the floors and , as he grasped the rungs , he saw again his aunt 's long trousered legs ahead of him disappearing into the chamber above . |
| 10 | The prospect of him returning to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 11 | I have a vivid picture of him standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way ( he is the kindest of men ) — ‘ If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss , they would boil him in oil . ’ ’ |
| 12 | Belinda knew it would be Tom Russell , but that did n't stop her from flushing foolishly at the sight of him standing in the doorway , jiggling his car keys in his hand . |
| 13 | Of course , she would n't go ; the image of him standing in the porch of the tall house , pressing the bell pointlessly , made her lips twitch . |
| 14 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 15 | Actually , one of him leaping into the canyon would have been far more spectacular . |
| 16 | They had heard , or heard of , prophets such as Jeremiah or Ezekiel speaking of God being behind the disaster , of him fighting on the enemy side . |
| 17 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 18 | Jerry Rawlings , Chairman of the PNDC and Head of State , from contesting the forthcoming presidential elections , on the grounds that his father was Scottish and that his allegiance to Ghana could therefore not be taken for granted , and because charges were still outstanding against him arising from the coups in May 1979 , June 1981 and December 1981 [ see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ] . |
| 19 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 20 | Melges 's answer was to pin up two crew lists , with him staying with the new Kanza . |
| 21 | There is no way he can focus on the ball properly with him looking over the front shoulder . |
| 22 | Now on his knees on the office floor , with Rohmer sitting above him smiling into the storm , Gilbert had begun to weep . |
| 23 | The buyer is the only party to have broken the contract and the seller will be entitled to damages from him according to the principles just outlined . |
| 24 | Very good about him getting on the television . |
| 25 | ‘ His mum worries about him coping with the ironing , and the cooking . |
| 26 | right then we got on to talking about him going into the gents and what he does , he do n't shut the door and such |
| 27 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 28 | Punctual arrival at the head of the queue which formed up by 9:15 on the January Monday morning meant for him rising in the small hours and manoeuvring a moped along frozen lanes to catch the milk train from Kingham to Paddington , but he never failed to appear . |
| 29 | It was the sort of mistake he had made too often in the past and accounted for him standing on the brink of a lonely middle age . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't suppose ‘ Mrs Smith ’ is the first woman with whom Garry has deceived his wife , and she probably wo n't be the last , ’ she said , her desire for him disappearing at the contempt in his tone . |