Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 2 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 3 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 4 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 5 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 6 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 7 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Constable David Owen said : ‘ The crowd remained silent after Downey shouted but when the tribute ended they began punching him round the neck , back and body and began pushing him towards us . ’ ’ |
| 10 | His colleagues , relieved to find something to talk about , began questioning him about the case . |
| 11 | As he played , part of the roof collapsed burying him under a pile of rubble . |
| 12 | She started towing him towards the back room . |
| 13 | In 1965 , his friend Roman Polanski started telling him about a beautiful French girl that ‘ I would be mad for . |
| 14 | His father , unable to speak the words of farewell , kept patting him on the back , his face a ruin . |
| 15 | The structure of section 7 , in my view , clearly contemplates the constable who has arrested the person bailed bringing him before the justice and stating his , that is to say the constable 's , grounds for believing that the defendant has broken a condition of his bail . |
| 16 | She continued watching him for a moment , then stepped out into full view . |
| 17 | Jackson , who pleaded not guilty , admitted frogmarching Mr Brown from the premises but denied striking him on the back of the head . |
| 18 | Beattie sat facing him across the table during his interview . |
| 19 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 20 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |
| 21 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 22 | Annie stood watching him for a few moments . |
| 23 | Shelley stood watching him for a while before he noticed her , and he came down to greet her . |
| 24 | For a moment , Kelly considered telling him about the dance , but then she thought better of it . |
| 25 | She sat watching him for a moment , hoping he would look around and smile ; but he kept his back turned to her and continued to gaze abstractedly out the window . |
| 26 | Curly Top sat watching him from a chair , a mischievous grin on his face . |