Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst there may still be a feeling that a High Court writ will have a greater threatening effect on a recalcitrant defendant than a county court summons , inducing him or her to settle the claim , the changes to the costs rules , and the harmonisation of remedies , will lessen the attractiveness of such action . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 3 | She treated his body with the same gentle reverence as he had used : her soft capable hands caressing him as she massaged the oil into his skin . |
| 4 | Police have been hunting him since he raped a girl of 11 at Warminster , Wilts , three weeks ago . |
| 5 | At first he resisted the demand for a judicial inquiry , on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence , but on April 25 he received a note from the Israeli government , informing him that it possessed a letter from Vere Bird Jr dated Nov. 9 , 1988 , which confirmed the arms order . |
| 6 | We had with us a Danakil from the Awash Station , not only as guide but also as hostage , and would not be releasing him until he found a replacement from the next tribe . |
| 7 | The hard graft may be persuading him or her to do the job . |
| 8 | I suggested the race would involve Dessie jumping a couple of fences to warm-up with Christie joining him as he crossed the last for a sprint up the finishing hill at Cheltenham . |
| 9 | Only " tough love " is helpful , loving the sufferer but allowing him or her to take the full consequences of all actions caused by the disease . |
| 10 | By fighting back only when the bully attacks you , you are allowing him or her to pick the time and the place that suits them ; it may be a good idea to reverse the roles . |
| 11 | ‘ Get on with it , Ruthie , ’ he told her , and though he was grinning from ear to ear she knew what was powering him and she felt the excitement blossom in herself . |
| 12 | She filled up all the blanks with unmanifested perfections , interpreting him as she interpreted the works of Providence and accounting for seeming discords by her own deafness to the higher harmonies . |
| 13 | ‘ I wo n't be fining him because I had a clear view of what happened and understand what he did and why he did it , ’ said manager Kevin Keegan . |
| 14 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 15 | Mungo noticed Emily watching him as he took a pile of thick ham sandwiches and two enormous pickled onions . |
| 16 | In fact , though one has seen him play Augusta in an admirable 67 , even Jack Nicklaus had trouble convincing him that he had the game to win the US Masters and he never did . |
| 17 | He then incurred the wrath of his senior officers by writing a rude letter to the Governor , telling him that he had no right to interfere in a dispute between gentlemen . |
| 18 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 19 | In 1960 he was in trouble with the law again when a crowd of youths began taunting him as he washed a friend 's car . |
| 20 | THE wife of killer Michael Sams has called him a ‘ lying bastard ’ and said she was divorcing him after he revealed the full extent of his crimes . |