Example sentences of "[v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fantasy desire on the part of a man , to have a woman adoring him , and to have her interested only in satisfying his desires , reinforces such desires in him . |
| 2 | And Mrs. Mounce was crowding him closer and closer . |
| 3 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 4 | She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume . |
| 5 | Which is why I 'm keepin' a guard on Brett , in case this one-man demolition squad decides to have another go at takin' him out . ’ |
| 6 | " Is n't kind of … tricking him ? |
| 7 | I could not prevent my father from tricking him into marrying me instead of Rachel . |
| 8 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 9 | When he entered into Calpurnia an army officer came to him and tricking him and saying , sir , my manservant is laid up in the house with paralysis being terribly tormented , he said to him when I get there I will cure her in reply the army officer said sir , I am not a fit man for you to enter under my roof , but just say the word and my manservant will be healed |
| 10 | you stop employing him or her |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 12 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 13 | Bad debts of 2 per cent of turnover seemed high , and JR decided to adopt the view that the acid test for a credit controller would be the cost of employing him when compared with the reduction of bad debts and overdraft charges , which should follow the appointment of a competent credit manager . |
| 14 | It may be significant that Rose was working for Henry Compton [ q.v. ] , bishop of London , in 1675 , for it was Compton who , in the words of Stephen Switzer [ q.v. ] , was London 's ‘ great Encourager ’ , employing him at Fulham Palace . |
| 15 | Lack of funds through University cut-backs along with his own lack of paper qualifications made it impossible for the Universities to continue employing him . |
| 16 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 17 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 18 | It was on a programme the other night saying the advice bureau are on the er companies cos some bloke , they were employing him to do something and he sued them and got two grand out of them . |
| 19 | Before he was even inside Amelia 's hallway , some harridan was leaping him , kissing his face with dry lips , pulling at his lapels . |
| 20 | Freddy replied , and blurred vision notwithstanding , went after Fly , overtaking him to stand between his brother and the elevator . |
| 21 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 22 | It was just in the process of digesting the Islamic revolution which had set the last of the Shahs , Muhammad Reza , on his unhappy way to exile , illness and death , the last finally overtaking him in Egypt . |
| 23 | Like coffee , legend surrounds the beginning of tea drinking and it is also reputed to have kept awake an ancient priest throughout a long vigil , stimulating him with its caffeine . |
| 24 | I can delegate authority over my son to a baby-sitter instructing him to make sure my son is in bed by a certain time . |
| 25 | Eight days later , Scott received an official letter approving the design of the India Office and instructing him to proceed with the working drawings . |
| 26 | The Lord spoke to a nightwatchman in the port of Valparaiso in a dream , instructing him to go to his pastor and tell him to gather his most spiritual people together to pray every day . |
| 27 | The FBI spokesman said Koresh , who says he is badly wounded , had told them he ‘ received a message from God instructing him to wait . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Hold it between your knees , ’ she hissed and then she stood behind him , leaning over his shoulder as though instructing him . |
| 29 | It is his letter of March 1094 to the bishop of Salisbury , instructing him in the name of himself and the king to take action about the case of the daughter of the king of Scotland , who had left the nunnery at Wilton and who — as Anselm and King William had agreed — was to be forced to return . |
| 30 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |