Example sentences of "and [v-ing] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 2 | Fellow worker Hazel Goff , who has St John 's Ambulance training , then administered first aid , cutting away Mr Chittenden 's burnt clothing and sponging him with water . |
| 3 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 4 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 5 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 6 | Protests : Student unrest had already involved a brief occupation of Abidjan cathedral on Feb. 23 , with demonstrators calling on Houphouët-Boigny to resign and accusing him of corruption . |
| 7 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 8 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 9 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 10 | Dana ran after him , catching his arm and bringing him to a standstill . |
| 11 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 12 | She furnished Eliot with the title and central concept of his poem , but was otherwise more important for summarizing and reminding him of other people 's ideas , such as those of E. K. Chambers speaking of literary forms encompassing ‘ fragments of forgotten cults ’ . |
| 13 | Afterwards Churchill is supposed to have sent a note to the Marshal , thanking him for his hospitality and reminding him of the details of their verbal agreements of the night before the morning after . |
| 14 | And to her amazement Nails got up without a word , dived into the pool , came up alongside Hoomey and started correcting his stroke , bawling into his ear and galvanizing him into twice the effort . |
| 15 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 16 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 17 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll make it a quick wash then , shall we ? ’ she asked , kissing his warm round face and pressing him to her . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course you can , ’ she said , taking his arm and walking him towards the bay window , but she kept one eye on the painting in case they were tempted . |
| 20 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 21 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 22 | By talking to him all night and keeping him on his feet , Luke had saved Spike 's life , only to have him try again successfully a week later when the story finally hit the press . |
| 23 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 24 | ‘ Socrates was the first man who thought about thinking , ’ she said , sitting on the window seat and surprising him in every way . |
| 25 | She instantly jumped into the boat in which her father was seated , and seizing him by the breasts of his coat , motioned him to return to the shore . |
| 26 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 27 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 28 | Earlier , a former police consatble , Patrick Stennett , told of stopping Hagans and searching him on a footbridge between the council office and a staff car park , half an hour before Mrs McGurk died . |
| 29 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 30 | ‘ Well … we 're hardly strangers any more , are we ? ’ she demanded , thrusting her hands into her pockets and eyeing him with a trace of annoyance . |