Example sentences of "he and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body that had been racked with sobbing was now pressing into him and moving in an altogether different rhythm . |
| 2 | She pushed on the door as if for support , turning towards him and settling into her seat again as if that had always been her intention . |
| 3 | ‘ A bit of a miracle , I call it , ’ said Lucie , drawing his long , thin legs up under him and getting to his feet . |
| 4 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 5 | Ruth blazed , limping after him and struggling with the cool-box . |
| 6 | " Regarde , Joseph , " said the French boy suddenly reining in his pony beside him and pointing to the far edge of the plain that they were crossing . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry . |
| 8 | ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair . |
| 9 | While he was fantasizing in this way the mare seemed to get used to his being there and when he next took notice of her she was quite close to him and looking at him curiously , head stretched out , upper lip quivering . |
| 10 | After that he was a changed man , keeping everyone away from him and insisting on moving to the North Bastion Tower . ’ |
| 11 | Palin never says this himself but talking to him and reading through previous interviews , one thing is striking . |
| 12 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 13 | Emily said , turning toward him and leaning over the arm of the chair . |
| 14 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got to help with the meal , ’ Jenna said uneasily , moving rapidly away from him and searching for her comb . |
| 16 | Ambivalence means that they both loved , admired , revered and desired to emulate him while simultaneously hating and fearing him and wishing to be rid of him . |
| 17 | Since the only previous time when R had seen F was a casual incident when there was little occasion to remember him and bearing in mind the difficult lighting and other circumstances when the attack occurred the conviction was unsafe or unsatisfactory . |
| 18 | The club are thinking about him and rooting for him . ’ |
| 19 | When John returned from lunch — very punctually , just before half-past one — Ianthe found herself studying him and taking in the details of his appearance . |
| 20 | Cowley sat with them , Leaning forward , hands clasped in front of him and resting on his beige folder . |
| 21 | By your own admission , when you 're not quizzing him about everything , you 're confronting him and toying with the idea of hitting him . |
| 22 | My vertical stabiliser hit the side of his fuselage , knocking a hole in him and bending about three-quarters of my tail over ’ . |
| 23 | Watching him and waiting for something . |
| 24 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 25 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 26 | Now Peter 's family can get on with looking after him and coping with his illness without worrying about losing their home . |
| 27 | David Steventon-Rogers , 25 , left Royston Smith , 43 , covered in blood after repeatedly slashing him and slicing through his ear , Bury St Edmunds Crown Court heard . |
| 28 | The prince too looked at the German , turning his head and collar towards him and putting on his pince-nez , though without the slightest curiosity . |
| 29 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 30 | He did n't advise but just stood there , nodding his head vaguely and smiling to himself while his hands — almost involuntarily — went through the motions of twisting the spindle he 'd brought with him and winding on the wool . |