Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was prepared to continue using him for up to a year as a continuity announcer . |
| 2 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 3 | And she would enjoy impressing him with what she had managed to find out about Hugh Puddephat so far . |
| 4 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 5 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 6 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 8 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 9 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 10 | So several of us tried standing him on his head and quickly reversing him . |
| 11 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 12 | She tried teasing him with her perfectly-rounded breasts , swinging the soft globes against his face . |
| 13 | ‘ every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening the peace refrain from doing so ; and those reasonable steps in appropriate cases will include detaining him against his will . ’ |
| 14 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 15 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 16 | I would n't have missed meeting him for anything . |
| 17 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 18 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 19 | I can remember seeing him on quite a poor peg on the River Trent at Winthorpe , giving a super display of distance stickfloat fishing , still one of the hardest techniques to master . |
| 20 | It was the only time I can ever remember seeing him with tears in his eyes . |
| 21 | I recall thanking him for his consideration , but quite probably I said nothing very definite for my employer went on : |
| 22 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |
| 23 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 24 | It was ‘ Gunga ’ the driver of the water truck , he hated the nickname , Gunga Din of cinema fame , and everyone was careful to avoid addressing him as anything other than just ‘ George ’ . |
| 25 | If he did , was Henry going to be able to avoid serving him with any ? |
| 26 | What do you keep pulling him for ? |
| 27 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |
| 28 | I am sorry that he has gone , since I do not like criticising him in his absence . |
| 29 | She did n't mind taking him to Plenty , that was no distance . |
| 30 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |