Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 3 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 4 | ‘ You always did stay up late , ’ she said , moving towards him , standing provocatively close , before walking past him into the hall . |
| 5 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 6 | He nearly fell off his bench , groping behind him in the darkness , and heard the metal box clatter as it slipped past his fingers . |
| 7 | Climbing up him like a vine . ’ |
| 8 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 9 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 10 | Within the narrative of Greenblatt 's book — opening with him considering the ‘ magic ’ of Shakespeare revivifying the dead in Greenblatt 's own voice , concluding with Greenblatt considering Shakespeare as substitute fetish for the book which the natives believed was stealing their life — this latter story also stands as a type of anecdote or fable about part of New Historicism 's critical enterprise . |
| 11 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 12 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 13 | Michael Grant , who was 24 , died within moments of a fuel oil tank exploding under him at the Midlands Electricity power station in Plough Lane , Hereford last August . |
| 14 | Later , via a university revue at the Edinburgh Festival , he met Terry Jones and began co-writing with him for The Frost Report . |
| 15 | ( 9 ) The number of shares offered for ( when aggregated with the existing holdings of shares and rights over shares of the buyer and persons acting by agreement or understanding with him within the meaning of the SARs ) must not amount to 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of the company . |
| 16 | Crowding round him for a share are , from left to right , Rousseau , Poupee and Héra ( her tiny son Hector just visible on her belly ) . |
| 17 | He started off carrying something like a seventy- to eighty-pound pack of tinned foods and dried foods , his only companion a lurcher dog walking beside him on a length of clothesline . |
| 18 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 19 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 20 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 21 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 22 | That was when he saw the thin figure jogging towards him in the gloom , and heard the roar of engines come up fast behind him . |
| 23 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 24 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 25 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 26 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 27 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 28 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 29 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 30 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |