Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 2 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 3 | He hardly knew the people in his own house , only to exchange a casual greeting if he met them going out or coming in . |
| 4 | He had the audacity to smile and Ruth squirmed frantically under him but he stilled her thrashing body with the weight of his own . |
| 5 | Sometimes he got them going , and usually when he did , his repairs would last for years . |
| 6 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
| 7 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 8 | ‘ But you can remember it all ? ’ said Fenella , anxiously , and Pumlumon pushed his hat well back and scratched his head and said once he got it going , it would follow as the night the day , or maybe it was the other way round . |
| 9 | I went out there next day with a friend from a garage and he got it going ; it was grit in the carburettor . ’ |
| 10 | And he got it going , with difficulty . |
| 11 | ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ . |
| 12 | They 'd seemed on close terms since the night he overheard them quarrelling . |
| 13 | A sunstroke did for her , and he found her floating , with her hair fanning out around her , her jewelled skin still sparkling like she 's alive — ; |
| 14 | He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead , the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated . |
| 15 | When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat . |
| 16 | He found her walking along a path through the fields . |
| 17 | He found her sitting behind her great oak desk , chatting to the two Sub-prioresses , a roll of accounts before them . |
| 18 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 19 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 20 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 21 | He found him chatting with two soldiers , and sharing their bottle of whisky . |
| 22 | He found him sitting in his canvas chair beside a brazier , drinking Guinness with the chief armourer . |
| 23 | He found him sitting on a bunk , holding a bottle of milk in one hand and cup of gin in the other . |
| 24 | He found them wanting . |
| 25 | The insensitive reviewer had invented and made use of the horrible word ‘ Bowenoid ’ for the stories collected in The Blush — he found them penetrating and subtle but could not forgive Elizabeth for her good fortune in being able to please the simple as well as the highbrow reader . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's nothing glamorous about war , ’ he 'd tell the boys years later when he found them watching yet another Great American War Movie on the TV . |
| 27 | And underneath the story started : Gallant young Dr Kit Masters , Oxford Boxing Blue , beat off a gang of three Blackshirts when he found them attacking an old man who ran a tailor 's shop . |
| 28 | There he found them playing tig round the apple trees . |
| 29 | His journey , John assumed , was either because of genuine business , or because he found it trying to wait in the capital . |
| 30 | He found it trying having to listen to endless complaints about her weight , her tiredness and her inability to carry a child . |