Example sentences of "[verb] he [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I want him waiting by this corner . |
| 3 | His knees between the insides of her thighs , she drew him sliding into her . |
| 4 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 5 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Across the table her younger son , Joseph , saw her cheeks burn , and she looked up to find him gazing at her in mystification . |
| 11 | His introduction to the greater world during his London visit was important in shaping his liberal sympathies , and when he returned to Stowey in March 1791 , his relatives were shocked to find him overflowing with French Revolutionary politics as well as other democratic heresies . |
| 12 | Quickly changing , bundling up the red dress , she emerged to find him sitting on her bed . |
| 13 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 14 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 15 | She spun round , startled , at the sound of Jake 's voice , to find him standing at her elbow , blue eyes dark with condemnation as they looked down into her face . |
| 16 | Helen had taken over the ‘ Returned Books ’ counter temporarily from one of the juniors and looked up to find him standing in front of her , smiling . |
| 17 | But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members . |
| 18 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |
| 19 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 20 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
| 21 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 22 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 23 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 24 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 25 | Sometimes the Captain caught him staring at him fixedly , willing him to get the case under Instruction . |
| 26 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 27 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 28 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 29 | Another message — ‘ Ease his pain ’ — sends the farmer off to Boston to find a reclusive novelist ( James Earl Jones ) and a third imprecation from the skies — ‘ Go the distance ’ has him looking for another old baseballer ( Burt Lancaster ) who played just once for the New York Giants before becoming a much-loved doctor . |
| 30 | The twelfth-century Laws of Edward the Confessor , however , has him fleeing to and marrying in Russia , which was also his destination according to Adam of Bremen , writing c .1070 . |