Example sentences of "[verb] him [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Er , I mean , we have met him , once or twice , but that 's as much as I can say , and it 's been er su such a span of time , that I do n't even know now , whether I would recognise him walking along the street . |
| 2 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 3 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 4 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 5 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 6 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 7 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 8 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 9 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 10 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 11 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 12 | Christine called out to him and found him crying with the bottle of poisonous carbolic acid still in his hands . |
| 13 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 14 | There was one terrible day when she came into his surgery and found him sitting beside the gramophone playing Soldiers of the Queen with tears pouring down his face . |
| 15 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 16 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 17 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 18 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 19 | That 's what stopped him getting to the top . |
| 20 | ‘ We were saying , ’ said Enid , without looking over her hefty lurex shoulder , ‘ that Ricky France-Lynch 's personality stopped him getting to the top . ’ |
| 21 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher stopped him going into the ERM , and Treasury forecasters failed to spot the recession . |
| 23 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 24 | I can still picture him standing in the centre circle wth both arms held above his head with a grin from East stand to west stand ! |
| 25 | He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist . |
| 26 | He was shooting a commercial for Canon , who photographed him posing against the Harley Davidson which , quite by chance , they spotted parked outside a Diner . |
| 27 | Just stop him falling down the road . |
| 28 | He lives for us , we can feel him kicking inside the idea 's belly , because the bridge-builder who does no bridge-building is vitalized by the nobody to be and nowhere to go of Dostoevsky 's inexhaustible inventive fascination . |
| 29 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 30 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |