Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the only time I can ever remember seeing him with tears in his eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like leaving him with Ma , ’ Aunt Sarah said occasionally , worried . |
| 3 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 4 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 5 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 6 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 7 | Then there is the post-Nürburgring view of Niki which apotheosized him : the way the press and the media treated him , you would have thought Richard Wagner was about to consider fitting him into Valhalla and Charlton Heston play him as El Cid . |
| 8 | ( After the war , when Collingwood was discovered by the younger generation , and found to be highly readable and stimulating , the situation was totally different , and the aging linguistic philosophers were obliged to start reading him in self-defence . ) |
| 9 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 10 | Alone with her , he floundered ; she kept pushing him under water , teased him with planks that did n't float . |
| 11 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 12 | Try playing him as George Robey . ’ |
| 13 | Gould would have been happy to remain in the same spot if it would continue providing him with novelties . |
| 14 | He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals . |
| 15 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 16 | Yeah , yeah it 's not compatible or summat er it 's compatible with his telly when he has n't got the Sky on and if he 's got the Sky on he 's got to mess about I sat watching him for days messing with it and then I says to him have you got it on your V U channel ? |