Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 2 | It is hard to imagine him coming at a better time as we plan to make our first Diocesan Assembly the centrepiece of his visit , on Saturday 10th June . |
| 3 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 4 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 5 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 6 | That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) . |
| 7 | Endill ran to the door expecting to see him crashing into the sea but when he looked down , saw him clinging to a wooden beam sticking out of the rock . |
| 8 | To see him passing by the window in his bucket hat holding a slice of bread and butter in his hand like the Mad Hatter , then hitting his forehead with his palm and rushing back in again . |
| 9 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 10 | Britain 's biggest motor racing crowd of the year will be there to see him driving in a touring car … what we all want to know is whether we 'll see him driving in grand prix again … |
| 11 | He did n't want anyone to see him walking through the theatre . |
| 12 | And he 'd not offer harm to me , I think But you , lassie-' once more I was promoted from ‘ Miss Fenemore ’ — ‘ there 's no need for you to fear him coming to the cottage , even though he has a boat and could get into the bay without anyone seeing him . |
| 13 | ‘ Later , I went to watch him sparring in the ring . |
| 14 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing to stop him hiding in the house . ’ |
| 16 | Try to stop him falling down the road . |
| 17 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
| 18 | The thought sobered Rory slightly , but not enough to stop him going for the gun . |
| 19 | In this instant , a stronger bit might help with the strong horse to stop him running through the rider 's hand . |
| 20 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 21 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 22 | Jones fears his criminal record pre-dating Pistols days might be used by US Immigration to prevent him returning to the States . |
| 23 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |