Example sentences of "him [v-ing] [prep] the " 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 | It would be too big and noisy and the teachers would hear him sawing during the night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | They bade goodnight to Joe and left him struggling with the two inebriates . |
| 10 | We also find him toying with the idea of writing an arthuriad , choosing his subject from English history . |
| 11 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | She could feel him shrinking by the second . |
| 21 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 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 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 25 | Then meeting him walking on the Heath . |
| 26 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
| 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 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
| 29 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 30 | Cos if he had a red coat , with a little white patch on it I see him walking round the village . |