Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Seeking to emulate him in every way , he decided he too would have a multiplicity of spouses . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ I 'm going to see him about a play I have written . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Yes , while attempting to hit him with a bat . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
10 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
12 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
13 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
14 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | At bonus time , his superiors were going to reward him with a fat check . |
17 | Howard wakes up in hospital with two people waiting to question him about a robbery and a dead body . |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | ‘ We 're going to steam him in a couple of minutes . ’ |
20 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
21 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
22 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
23 | Brain power and horse power is going to take him to the top of the sport . |
24 | 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 |
25 | Miguel 's going to ask him on the night — out of the blue . |
26 | Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive . |
27 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
28 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |