Example sentences of "[prep] him [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before , a well-dressed elderly woman reeled towards him clutching a half-eaten burger and threw up all over his instrument . |
| 2 | He sent a lad after it to try to catch it and with disgust watched me limp towards him rubbing a bruised thigh . |
| 3 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 4 | ‘ Those pitiless Goblin scum , ’ sobbed Gambo as a Wolf Rider bound towards him brandishing a spear and grinning broadly in anticipation of an easy kill . |
| 5 | It was here that Tony gave me my ring and told me that my funghi marinati was the best he 'd ever had in spite of him getting an earful of it . |
| 6 | The chances of him waiving the clause are looking slim . ’ |
| 7 | The chances of him waiving the clause are looking slim . ’ |
| 8 | Anderson himself , in scene five , remarks on the fact that language allows him to 'show off a bit " ( p. 63 ) but this comment occurs in the context of his longest turn , which is the most obvious example of him violating the maxim of manner . |
| 9 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 10 | The idea of him telling a stranger anything in confidence would also be good for a chuckle any time but now . |
| 11 | The entire first half consisted of film of Botham 's greatest moments , liberally interspersed with more film of him drinking the sponsor 's lager . |
| 12 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 13 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 14 | She was so eager to embrace the chance of Ortiz being alive — of him holding the key to Samantha 's freedom — that she shouted the words , rousing the waitress from a slumped reverie by the till . |
| 15 | But the memory of him holding the Jules Rimet trophy triumphantly aloft is etched on the memories of millions . |
| 16 | There was no question of him hearing the noise in the stillness of the waxworks . |
| 17 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department . |
| 19 | This , plus a variety of photographs of him featuring a range of his involvements and achievements would eventually find a place in his portrait portfolio . |
| 20 | Well it 's just a question of him arranging the transport to get rid of it . |
| 21 | He believes that there is little chance of him finding a job in the near future . |
| 22 | Not that you suspect him because you do n't like the look of him walking the streets — he 's got to be a suspected person . |
| 23 | Macari said reports of him spending the weekend talking to Celtic director David Smith were ‘ pure rubbish , ’ and that he 'd still not seen or spoken to anyone from Celtic Park . |
| 24 | Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that . |
| 25 | She thought of him nicking the crisps , of him not caring what he did . |
| 26 | Two removal men came past him carrying a huge painting shrouded in a blanket . |
| 27 | The towering , effortless blow that cleared the St Lawrence lime certainly pleased the Canterbury archivists , and it is a foolish man who bets against him delighting the rest of the world for many years to come . |
| 28 | Don Peters knew when he went to the podium that the odds were stacked heavily against him gaining the support of Nate Cocello and the committee . |
| 29 | There I saw an unusual sight : the admiral in shirtsleeves and braces sitting astride a very low dressing-table stool and gazing keenly at his reflection in the mirror , the ADC on his knees behind him brushing the curls at the back of his head . |
| 30 | His partner Constable John Hodgkinson — pictured with him reading a book — keeps his post . |