Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] him on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 3 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 4 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 5 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 6 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 7 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 8 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 9 | He found the warehouse which corresponded to the number on the invoice lying beside him on the passenger seat and slowed the Golf to a halt in front of it . |
| 10 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 11 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 12 | She grasped his body , his hair , clinging to him on the brink of chaos . |
| 13 | When he woke it was to find her sitting beside him on the bed , watching him . |
| 14 | Thus Old Den left the scene of his many triumphs on the shoulders of his son and his friends , leaving behind him on the bar fond memories of countless great nights of debates , discussion and song , echoed now in the keening of the women from their seats in the corner . |
| 15 | He led the way down the slope , his shadow stretching behind him on the grass . |
| 16 | Most despise Mr Milosevic as a former communist , but find themselves agreeing with him on the Vance-Owen plan . |
| 17 | I first met Basil in Wakefield during the spring of 1959 and was fortunate to find myself working with him on the West Riding vacation course at Ilkley later that year . |
| 18 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |