Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 4 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 5 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 6 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 7 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 8 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 9 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 12 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 13 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 14 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 18 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 19 | Even Radio 1 are tipping him as the favourite ! |
| 20 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 21 | Now Becky Blandford , although separated from her husband has been defending him on the daytime television programme , This morning . |
| 22 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 23 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 24 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
| 25 | ‘ He can operate as a defender , a sweeper or a midfielder , and I 'll be using him in the midfield role . |
| 26 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 27 | Then he observed in a flat tone , ‘ What a tragedy , in that case , that you wo n't be seeing him for a while . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll be seeing him before the match . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |