Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 2 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 3 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 4 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 5 | Instead , as David Elsworth admits , ‘ with Gold Cup horses giving him only a few pounds , it is asking an awful lot . |
| 6 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 8 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 9 | Bruce was showing him how the new tree planting was coming on . |
| 10 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 11 | Matilda was still only 25 and Geoffrey a mere 14 , but it was the wisest thing Henry I did in order to secure his dynastic survival ( after the disastrous loss of his heir when the White Ship sank with loss of all hands , leaving him only a single female heir ) . |
| 12 | Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay . |