Example sentences of "him [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 3 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 4 | I talk to him walking through a packed mid-evening Tokyo , our interview interrupted as a fellow headache passes by . |
| 5 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 6 | Gentle began to follow , but the fall had left him aching in every joint , and he knew the chase was lost before he 'd hobbled three yards . |
| 7 | There is no way he can focus on the ball properly with him looking over the front shoulder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that , licking his great , greedy chops … |
| 10 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 11 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 12 | His fears of not making the grade evaporated when ITV talent scouts spotted him wrestling on the amateur circuit . |
| 13 | He took him hunting with the Old Berkshire where he jumped all sorts of obstacles and had to learn to look after himself in tricky situations and he found a new enthusiasm . |
| 14 | Needless to say , the taxation liability is ultimately a personal one for the partner — assessed on him according to the profit-sharing formula . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And with him going to a different school . |
| 17 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 18 | Elizabeth played one of her characteristically tantalizing games , and kept him waiting until the very moment of her death . |
| 19 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 20 | With Sissy she eventually discovers him lying in a disused mine shaft , and is with him when he dies . |
| 21 | Punctual arrival at the head of the queue which formed up by 9:15 on the January Monday morning meant for him rising in the small hours and manoeuvring a moped along frozen lanes to catch the milk train from Kingham to Paddington , but he never failed to appear . |
| 22 | Melges 's answer was to pin up two crew lists , with him staying with the new Kanza . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place . |
| 25 | The sort of man whose head has been turned by success and left him staring in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | It will serve the purpose of isolating Mr Tweed from his old buddies , keep him running like a scared fox . ’ |
| 27 | I watched him attending to the new arrivals and tried to recall the details about him . |
| 28 | Engine trouble on the first leg did n't manage to stop him coming in a creditable second . |
| 29 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 30 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |