Example sentences of "him [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It would be too big and noisy and the teachers would hear him sawing during the night . |
2 | Even when his ankle was much improved , the fracture knitting itself together most satisfactorily , she still went and would find him hobbling around the conservatory which was raw and bright , being still too new for the vines and jasmines to have masked its bare white ribs . |
3 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
4 | She could hear him sucking at a fruit gum . |
5 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
6 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
7 | ‘ Never mind , Piper , get your kilt on and get over there fast , or you will soon hear him bellowing throughout the area. , |
8 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
9 | We also find him toying with the idea of writing an arthuriad , choosing his subject from English history . |
10 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
11 | Plummer bellowed , watching gloomily as a body punch brought down his fighter 's guard and a thunderous uppercut lifted him off his feet and sent him crashing to the canvas . |
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 | Col. Manuel José António resumed his duties as Interior Minister on April 10 after charges against him relating to a coup attempt in August 1991 [ see p. 38377 ] were dropped . |
14 | Actually , one of him leaping into the canyon would have been far more spectacular . |
15 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Julian left him lurking in the shelter of the cart-house while she kept watch from the wicket for the most favourable moment , and beckoned him through quickly when the alley was empty . |
18 | Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now ! |
19 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
20 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
21 | 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 … |
22 | His fellow travellers saw him praying to the Emperor , as he had been schooled to . |
23 | He did n't want anyone to see him walking through the theatre . |
24 | Then meeting him walking on the Heath . |
25 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
26 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
27 | Er , I mean , we have met him , once or twice , but that 's as much as I can say , and it 's been er su such a span of time , that I do n't even know now , whether I would recognise him walking along the street . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
30 | Cos if he had a red coat , with a little white patch on it I see him walking round the village . |