Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness .
2 The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place .
3 Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball .
4 The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time .
5 No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car .
6 ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’
7 I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him .
8 Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily .
9 You 're going to knock on his door and you 're going to bring him outside and you 're going to put him in the car . ’
10 When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ .
11 Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ?
12 Brain power and horse power is going to take him to the top of the sport .
13 Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so
14 Miguel 's going to ask him on the night — out of the blue .
15 Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive .
16 This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her .
17 Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police .
18 A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge .
19 Why did n't Luke damn well help him , instead of threatening to throw him off the film ?
20 She lashed out suddenly with her crop , intending to hit him in the face .
21 Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police .
22 ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre .
23 She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak .
24 His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier .
25 I do n't tell no lie , I was goin' to ask 'im for the loan of a bob so 's I could get to see this bloke that might be puttin' a bit of business in me way .
26 Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other .
27 The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux .
28 His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ?
29 She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ .
30 I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’
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