Example sentences of "see him [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 2 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 3 | That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever . |
| 4 | Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now ! |
| 5 | Teacher never had a moment 's peace with him , and I could n't count the number of times I 've seen him waiting outside the headmaster 's study . |
| 6 | Dick 's career has seen him playing against the country 's best , even though he always remained a village player at heart . |
| 7 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 8 | The bedroom door was pushed right back and , from where she was lying stretched out on her reclining chair , Bella could see him climbing through the window . |
| 9 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
| 10 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 11 | One can see him grappling with the difficulty in his poem-cum-essay ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm 's Son ’ , published in 1953 , the year before The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 15 | He did n't want anyone to see him walking through the theatre . |
| 16 | Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that , licking his great , greedy chops … |
| 17 | From the back window she saw him swaggering along the dock , a hand on his hip , throwing keys in the air with insouciant authority . |
| 18 | I myself saw him parading through the stunned streets , with courtiers , in his carriage , pushed by a white horse like a paper bag full of water and bones . |
| 19 | The boy looked around wildly for Garvey , and saw him leaning against the property wagon quietly chewing sugar-beet . |
| 20 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 21 | Ages later I saw him listening to the band and clutching his fistful of Mickeys . |
| 22 | Fernie saw him going into the house . |
| 23 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 24 | Before the shooting Melrose Spence , a friend of the defendant , saw him sitting on the bonnet of his car , talking to someone in a jeep . |
| 25 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 26 | On the morning she saw him standing in the body of the church , dark as a gypsy in his morning suit . |
| 27 | I looked back and saw him grovelling in the road for his hat . |
| 28 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 29 | His fellow travellers saw him praying to the Emperor , as he had been schooled to . |
| 30 | He was the owner and shipmaster of the Russell , and when he was n't off at sea ( which was usually ) she sometimes saw him striding through the village with Mr Bryant , a gentleman from Plymouth who went on voyages as navigator with him . |