Example sentences of "[v-ing] beside him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had never appeared to notice her existence until today but now , strolling beside him in the warmth of the afternoon sun , Martha felt a heady excitement . |
| 3 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 4 | Standing beside him in the playground of the brand new glitter-and-glass comprehensive school was Tina Shepherd . |
| 5 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 6 | When he woke it was to find her sitting beside him on the bed , watching him . |
| 7 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 8 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 9 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 10 | Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair . |