Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of the former came from Continental FC 's captain Barry Dennis , who , having left school , went to college where he gained a Full Technological Certificate enabling him to take a position in the computer industry . |
| 2 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |
| 3 | Mr. Gilberd agreed to the transaction , the defendant paid the cheque into the bank , and a few days later Ballay took possession of the goods , the defendant helping him to load them into his vehicle . |
| 4 | The Director of the Serious Fraud Office formed the opinion that the matter was appropriate for investigation by procedures under the Criminal Justice Act 1987and on 24 June served a notice on the applicant requiring him to attend for interview at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information . |
| 5 | He was no Johnny ) glowered with disbelief , his open mouth making him look even more stupid , and was heard to say : |
| 6 | ‘ Probably , ’ Cardiff mouthed , naked fear making him tremble as he reached the step above the thing . |
| 7 | The financial community was also shocked by a recent photograph showing him looking like a down and out with flowing locks and a long white beard and wearing dirty jeans and trainers . |
| 8 | for three numbers the Maltese heavy stared at him — while all his henchmen stood at the back of the club watching him watching John . |
| 9 | Could there have been a fight causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on something ? |
| 10 | Leopold had already written to Padre Martini urging him to send a letter of recommendation to the Elector and , since Munich was on Mozart 's route from Paris to Salzburg , he suggested that his son intimate to the Elector , or to a close associate , that he had been offered a post at Salzburg with a salary of 700 or 800 gulden ( the actual salary was only 450 ) in the hope that a more rewarding appointment might be offered . |
| 11 | It was alleged that AJ struck a security guard forcing him to drop a bag he was carrying and , when a police officer intervened , other men with weapons came to help AJ . |
| 12 | On the other hand , an employer who dismisses a redundant employee for going on strike during his notice period will still have to make him a redundancy payment unless he serves a ‘ notice of extension ’ in accordance with the Consolidation Act requiring him to make up the time lost through the strike . |
| 13 | At a public inquiry in March , Mr Fenney appealed against three enforcement notices issued by Warrington Borough Council requiring him to reduce the size of the driving range . |
| 14 | for example , when the Select Committee conducted an inquiry into Economic and Monetary Union and political Union , Dr Kari-Otto pöhl , giving evidence as president of the Bundesbank , found that the ad hoc Committee questioning him contained three former Governors of the Bank of England . |
| 15 | And at Nottingham County Court , Judge Elisabeth checkedFisher granted an order under the 1989 Children Act letting him live with his own father 's parents . |
| 16 | Susan saw him come out of the door and start back down the track , anger and anxiety making him push his pace . |
| 17 | His friends on the Union committee thought that what happened was best accounted for if he saw a vision of his dead mother in the gallery watching him speak . |
| 18 | Penry put out a hand , then dropped it , and with a strangled curse turned away to stride off over the cobbles of the arcade , an arresting figure in the autumn sunlight as he went out into the street without a backward glance for the girl watching him go . |
| 19 | Well he 'd got a seven year old girl copying him had n't he ? |
| 20 | It 's always a good laugh watching him getting increasingly irritated with the interviewer after a humiliating defeat . |
| 21 | Similarly , within ATE areas testing could be supported by intelligent diagnostic information systems capable of guidance and support to the test engineer helping him assimilate complex failure history data and useful testing procedures . |
| 22 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 23 | Scott 's urgent pleas to the Prince Regent , the future King George IV , had resulted in a Royal Warrant permitting him to open the sealed Crown Room in search of the Scottish crown , sceptre and sword of state — the ancient Honours of Scotland , locked away since 1707 following the Treaty of Union . |
| 24 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 25 | His two main sponsors have dropped out of racing for the moment leaving him chasing a £3,000 shortfall . |
| 26 | go sitting in his shop watching him mend the shoes . |
| 27 | She stood in the projection room watching him welcome the punters . |
| 28 | The smell accompanying him suggested he 'd brought fresh coffee beans . |
| 29 | I had such difficulty persuading him to take Brückner 's story seriously . |
| 30 | The opposite was true in his perception and so it was necessary to work with this widower helping him say out loud the things that he wanted to say to his wife — all the uncomplimentary and difficult things — and then , having done that , to begin grieving for the lost relationship . |