Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 2 | ‘ The great landowner seems to reign there like the lion in his forest , driving from him by his roars all who seek to approach his presence . ’ |
| 3 | He let her go , then stood there , watching her move about the room , disturbed by the thoughts , the memories that insisted on returning to him in her presence . |
| 4 | ‘ Does the moon shine in the night sky ? ’ she mocked shakily , laughing at him through her tears . |
| 5 | The ladies mocked him , laughing at him behind their hands . ’ |
| 6 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 7 | Li Shai Tung sat back in his chair , looking about him at his fellow T'ang . |
| 8 | Breeding seems to be initiated by the female who approaches the male by swimming towards him with her dorsal and anal fins clamped to her body and her caudal fin swaying from side to side . |
| 9 | Jenna stormed , brushing past him on her way to the door . |
| 10 | Then we got back together again and I was living with him at his mum 's house . |
| 11 | Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ? |
| 12 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 13 | But this overlooks two points : first , that the transsexual is living proof that , in actuality , the psyche may operate in defiance of biological truths regardless of what the law says it should do ; second , that the psyche is not necessarily formed by choice , but may instead be determined for the individual by forces operating on him during its development . |
| 14 | She was biting on her lip , distressed , frowning at him under her fringe of red hair . |
| 15 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 16 | That has its charm , ’ said his mother , looking at him through her silver glasses . |
| 17 | Elinor was looking at him with what might have been respect . |
| 18 | And Matey badly needed help ; indeed , she was looking at him with something like approval . |
| 19 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 20 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 21 | The two eldest of the ‘ broth ’ agreed with their father , nodding and grinning at him with their mouths full . |
| 22 | Young Donald was grinning at him with his new look of mockery . |
| 23 | Former Scottish international Rodger , who won the men 's singles last year in the Middlesbrough Borough Councilsupported event , has a particular strong field competing against him for his title . |
| 24 | He went out of the bedroom and down the stairs to the hallway where Matilda Jenkins was waiting for him with her hand out . |
| 25 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 26 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 27 | I heard my men going after him with their guns — and then everything went black . |
| 28 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 29 | You could wheel in Julius Caesar and Pike would just sit there , peering at him through his gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 30 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |