Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 3 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 4 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 5 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 6 | He tried to break free , but he could not ; there were too many of them , manhandling him along the narrow jetty . |
| 7 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 8 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 9 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 10 | Teversham and his sergeant closed round Morgan , shepherding him to the waiting Land Rover with meaningless gentle instructions to watch the step , up you go now . |
| 11 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 12 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 13 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 14 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 15 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 16 | There was a little crowd underneath him , beseeching him with the heavy solemn common-sense of drunks to ‘ come down and not be a fool ’ . |
| 17 | He could feel his strength returning ; could feel the brandy coursing through his veins , filling him with a warm glow . |
| 18 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 19 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 20 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 21 | Passing him in the cramped area of the cockpit , her bare leg brushed against the coarseness of his knee . |
| 22 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 23 | It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace . |
| 24 | It is Sergeant Eddie Grant at the RMP Control Room , warning him of a possible major problem in the Soviet Sector . |
| 25 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 26 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 27 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 28 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 29 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 30 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |