Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 3 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 4 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 5 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 6 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 7 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
| 8 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 9 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 10 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 11 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 12 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 13 | Even Radio 1 are tipping him as the favourite ! |
| 14 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 15 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 16 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 17 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
| 18 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
| 19 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
| 20 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 21 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 22 | In fact , ’ she added , driven by an unholy desire to be perverse , ‘ I shall be meeting him after the boat ride . |
| 23 | So I 'm kicking him under the table ! |
| 24 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
| 25 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 26 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 27 | Er , no I think I 'm having him on the Monday cos she 's going to have her hair permed |
| 28 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 29 | I could be putting him on the spot . |
| 30 | I shall be watching him on the television . ’ |