Example sentences of "him doing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’ |
| 2 | He attracts ten million-plus television audiences , but how much longer will they put up with him doing just enough to beat men who have have gone beyond their ‘ sell-by ’ date ? |
| 3 | Very likely he used the same precise manner ; she could n't imagine him doing otherwise . |
| 4 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 5 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 6 | It is hard to think of him doing any worse for England than the cardboard cut-outs who allegedly were playing midfield in Santander the other night . |
| 7 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ Brown 's problem could be the result of him doing too much bowling , and underlines the need for us to rotate our bowlers . |
| 8 | In the second session Prost improved and Damon ran into brake problems which left him doing very few laps , none of which was faster than his Friday effort . |
| 9 | Evans , who has transformed Cardiff from last season 's Welsh rugby no-hopers to this year 's championship contenders , said he had been asked to come back next year but personal problems might prevent him doing so . |
| 10 | In the current context any advertisement inviting the reader to buy or sell a future ( or refrain from doing so ) or which contains information calculated to lead to him doing so is an investment advertisement . |