Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] him [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 2 | Mostly the waiter would go along with this , sensing that Oliver was one of those customers who did not , for all their enquiries , actually want any advice , and it was just a question of slowly reeling him in like a fish . |
| 3 | There were certain crescendos when a particularly macho spectator would sweep a Bisu off his feet and kiss him furiously before roughly throwing him back into the circle again . |
| 4 | Most appropriately , his approach has been to break through the author 's privacy , effectively dragging him out of the closet and giving an imaginative frame to the book by presenting the deplorable facts of Burroughs 's life . |
| 5 | On another occasion Ricky knocked Minton out on the platform of the Underground , afterwards propping him up on a bench until he recovered sufficiently to be walked home . |