Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 32 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 33 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 34 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 35 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 36 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
| 37 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 38 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 39 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 40 | " Er — Hazel , " said Hawkbit , looking past him into the face of the dreary , black cliff . |
| 41 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 42 | The cap fixed him securely to the board , with his airborne body trembling behind him like the handle of a plunged dagger . |
| 43 | I remembered peeing with him under the stars , asking questions about the danger of translating a private spiritual vision into social action . |
| 44 | Initially , Calandrini was on excellent terms with his mentor , De Dominis , lodging with him at the Savoy Hospital . |
| 45 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 46 | The boy stood looking round him with a wary face and large , intent eyes . |
| 47 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 48 | ‘ We will be listening to him in the wings every night . ’ |
| 49 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 50 | ‘ This has gone too far , ’ she stormed , rounding on him like a vengeful fury . |
| 51 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 52 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 53 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 54 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 55 | Her pulses were racing , her throat felt tight , just looking at him across a crowded street … |
| 56 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 57 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 58 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 59 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 60 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |