Example sentences of "he [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a bunch of others voices inside him clamouring to be heard ( Dieter — the clipped-toned Kraftwerkian presenter of German youth show , Sprockets ; the maniacal owner of the Scottish gift shop , All Things Scottish — motto , ‘ If it 's not Scottish , it 's crap ! ! ! ’ ) , does he feel , the inevitable film sequel notwithstanding , that Wayne 's just about past his sell-by date ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It would be too big and noisy and the teachers would hear him sawing during the night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One letter in January finds him apologising to Theo for composing his previous letter in ‘ a moment of spleen ’ . |
| 6 | To see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sèvres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee . |
| 7 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 8 | I could n't bear him fumbling over me after yesterday … |
| 9 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 10 | His correspondence shows him reacting to Gandhi with the rather detached curiosity he showed for other exotic forms of political life . |
| 11 | Could we bear to see him weeping across the border there in West Yorkshire ? |
| 12 | She could hear him sucking at a fruit gum . |
| 13 | You got abuse from a drunk — well , you dealt with him depending on how far he went before you decided to lock him up . |
| 14 | His younger days saw him helping with cubs and scouts and he 's is so popular that already residents and storekeepers from the villages have started a fund to help him' |
| 15 | I realize that I am standing just as Summerchild stood that other night , when I saw him gazing with such intensity into his own life . |
| 16 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 17 | Across the table her younger son , Joseph , saw her cheeks burn , and she looked up to find him gazing at her in mystification . |
| 18 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 19 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ Never mind , Piper , get your kilt on and get over there fast , or you will soon hear him bellowing throughout the area. , |
| 21 | I could feel him rooting through my past . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't much fancy leaving him hanging like this . ’ |
| 24 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 25 | I found him reflecting on this problem with his usual shrewdness . |
| 26 | However , his abiding passion for collecting recipes and formulas kept him experimenting for a further twenty years , perfecting the transfer-printing process . |
| 27 | They bade goodnight to Joe and left him struggling with the two inebriates . |
| 28 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
| 29 | as if from nowhere Henry , too , appeared and , crouching in the corner of the couch , Emma now watched him struggling with her mother , and when he wrenched the poker from her hand and flung it across the room , there was the sound of splintering wood , which brought about an inevitable silence , punctuated only by gasps . |
| 30 | We also find him toying with the idea of writing an arthuriad , choosing his subject from English history . |