Example sentences of "[verb] he [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Robert Sheldon , chairman of the committee , has said the committee might consider him attending . |
| 2 | Time and again the Romans were stirred by the love of liberty and faction , which is a central feature of the whole urban renaissance , to rise against the pope and send him packing . |
| 3 | This he was stupid to assume as they refuse to put up with this strain on their own households and rather cruelly send him fleeing out to face the hard elements in the stormy night . |
| 4 | But if man is vulnerable to impulses which send him spiralling down into darkness , that very vulnerability is the means by which he can existentially know the strength whereby it can be healed and stabilised . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We want him watching , and you 're the man to do it . ’ |
| 7 | want him coming back to me |
| 8 | I want him waiting by this corner . |
| 9 | Can you image him turning up , he 'd follow me round everywhere would n't he ? |
| 10 | His body was still warm when it was discovered by police after his farm manager had reported him missing . |
| 11 | ‘ Have his parents reported him missing ? ’ asked Gus . |
| 12 | When Tom Webster drew him wearing a knee-length sweater , he ensured that , thereafter , all his sweaters were oversized . |
| 13 | His knees between the insides of her thighs , she drew him sliding into her . |
| 14 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 15 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 16 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 17 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 18 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 19 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 20 | Benny glanced back at him , to find him laying down his gun and removing his tunic . |
| 21 | Her eyes fluttered open , only to find him screwing the cap to the bottle . |
| 22 | I was appalled to find him investing a portion of our diminutive budget in some sixty bowls . |
| 23 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 24 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 25 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 26 | Pascoe was surprised to find him looking almost happy when he came through the door . |
| 27 | Penry reached over her to turn on the lamp , and she opened her eyes to find him looking down into her face , a triumphant , indulgent smile curving his mouth as he slid his arms around her , throwing one long leg over hers in careless intimacy . |
| 28 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 29 | Across the table her younger son , Joseph , saw her cheeks burn , and she looked up to find him gazing at her in mystification . |
| 30 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |