Example sentences of "[prep] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The husband , loving him , looking after him is regarded by us as a duty . |
| 2 | This time around it looks like being a more permanent fixture , despite him being called up Strain-style for the firsts in recent weeks . |
| 3 | And out of this fascination with man two modern versions of him are born . |
| 4 | Little pieces of him are quivering all over his deep-pile carpet right now , but it did n't seem to make the slightest impression . |
| 5 | Again , sword and phallus substitute for each other , but in a uniquely revealing way : not only is Vitelli 's violence against Clara 's father erotically identified with the sexual act performed ‘ with ’ her , but the disembowelment of him is aligned with her childbirth . |
| 6 | Suddenly the human part of him is falling apart . |
| 7 | Sources close to the company said Mr Virani was relinquishing his roles ‘ willingly ’ and there was ‘ no question ’ of him being ousted . |
| 8 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 9 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 10 | The workout at a club in Fulham , London , was Ray 's first since his arrival home from Barcelona — and our dramatic picture of him being greeted by Louis . |
| 11 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |
| 12 | ‘ Even though there was a strong risk of him being found out . |
| 13 | Marco would n't hear of him being put back in the cabin . |
| 14 | She was glad to think of him being driven away . |
| 15 | ‘ Now there 's no chance of him being left out . ’ |
| 16 | The men grouped together ahead of him were hunched against the drizzle . |
| 17 | And the scent of him and the taste of him were making her giddy . |
| 18 | Yet , for me , his greatest creative gifts were used to influence so many Yorkshire teachers who , because of him were changed as were the children they taught . |
| 19 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 20 | Denis noticed that his uncle , sitting about three seats ahead of him was coughing more than usual , and glaring openly at the briars either side of him . |
| 21 | That left an embarrassed home goalkeeper Ogrizovic to explain how all 6ft 4in of him was beaten by a chip by Arsenal 's substitue from 20 yards and from a daunting angle . |
| 22 | And even now the closeness of him was acting like a drug on her tired senses , its effect heightened by a heady mixture of desire and fear . |
| 23 | Across the narrow stretch of water in front of him was Flushing Quay where the ferry was moored , ready for its first crossing of the day . |
| 24 | It seemed the aroma of him was growing all around her , damp and masculine , the smell of rain in a forest . |
| 25 | For all his international notoriety , Harari is barely known in his native country , and the one photograph known to exist of him was reprinted on the front pages of newspapers yesterday accompanying the news of his arrest . |
| 26 | So much of him was drawn into his eyes that he never heard the drumming of hooves cross the plateau from the ramp , or the rattle of the chains as the drawbridge was lowered in haste . |
| 27 | We 're not sure if this photo of him was taken during his sales training , or because he had won the half year professional sails guild award last year . |
| 28 | The rest of him was suspended in limbo . |
| 29 | Part of him was saying : that 's because if you for one second think seriously about the position you 've put yourself in , you 'll panic . |
| 30 | Which part of him was saying so ? |