Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel stopped her pacing about the room and looked at de Raimes in surprise . |
| 2 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 3 | Corbett met him coming up the stairs . |
| 4 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
| 5 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 6 | Lucy watched them going down the lane . |
| 7 | An SAR helicopter of the Army Air Corps and an RAF Nimrod began a search , and at 0015 on Friday 9 March William Luckin slipped her mooring with Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell in command . |
| 8 | Rebecca had him panting after her . |
| 9 | It seems we got a irregularity here — Mr Stein knows he goin' to be workin' here long-term but he apply for short-term only . ’ |
| 10 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 11 | One letter in January finds him apologising to Theo for composing his previous letter in ‘ a moment of spleen ’ . |
| 12 | Alexander saw her coming towards him . |
| 13 | Alan left him howling in the cot again while he went for a bowl of water . |
| 14 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 15 | Giotto shows him chomping on Jonah 's thighs , with only the knees and the flailing feet to go . |
| 16 | ‘ Since Maurice heard them coming for him that night . ’ |
| 17 | Forte 's current agreement with the Savoy prevents it adding to its stake . |
| 18 | Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room . |
| 19 | Doyle heard him saying to Chrissie , ‘ I want to stay down here , with Dad . ’ |
| 20 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 21 | One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop . |
| 22 | Defries found her lying on her back , eyes open . |
| 23 | Willie heard him talking to someone inside . |
| 24 | Philip saw him staring at his Dad 's swimming trophies . |
| 25 | Julian left him lurking in the shelter of the cart-house while she kept watch from the wicket for the most favourable moment , and beckoned him through quickly when the alley was empty . |
| 26 | ‘ Riddle had it coming to him , I 'm not wasting any tears over that bastard . ’ |
| 27 | Mid-June finds you thinking of changing your place of residence and by July you 're going to be happier than you have been in quite some time ! |
| 28 | Sacco and Nooty found him sitting with his head against the cab wall , staring vacantly at his feet . |
| 29 | Daisy Pettigrew changed her reading for her long distance glasses , so that she could see the vicarage garden more clearly . |
| 30 | And Theodora recounted her meeting with her in the drive at the Julians ' house . |