Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He played great golf and it was very sad for him to lose by missing that putt . ’ |
| 2 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 3 | Sarah 's eyes filled with tears , which she allowed him to see before burying her face against his ample knees . |
| 4 | The mother also agreed to place a small plate of Ben 's favourite food ( chunks of cheese and pieces of apple ) in front of him at meal-times but then not to watch him eat by getting on with a job in the kitchen . |
| 5 | I trusted Carradine because he was different , but trusting him led to mistrusting everyone else . |
| 6 | I watch him concentrate on licking the end of a little cigar . |
| 7 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 8 | Robertson , who has spent time labouring and more recently teaching in Europe to finance his playing career , is now attached to Castle Eden and Peterlee golf club which is allowing him to concentrate on playing local professional events . |
| 9 | Nour said ( he really did say it ) that I was disobedient to him to persist in feeding the cat . |
| 10 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 11 | Can I persuade him to talk without crunching him ? |
| 12 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
| 13 | His strong sense of duty made him insist on going , even if the weather was very bad . |
| 14 | It was n't entirely his thirst for knowledge that had made him insist on driving north to Chanchán . |
| 15 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 16 | Working outside gets him acclimatized to meeting other people before being released . |
| 17 | On two occasions he joined large dinner parties designed to raise money for particular charities and I witnessed him reduced to slumping over the table on folded arms , where he remained comatose until gently removed at the end of the meal . |
| 18 | His practical genius for ergonomics allowed him to succeed in adapting tasks to suit a disabled workforce . |
| 19 | ‘ My child has never heard the sound of laughter , ’ said the woman , ‘ and I do n't want him to die without hearing it . ’ |
| 20 | Marshall smiled contentedly as he said : ‘ We got him to confess to putting the knife in the pond . ’ |
| 21 | No matter what it cost her , she could not let him leave without trying to speak to him . |
| 22 | I thought he would have no chance of life if his father Heathcliff took him to live at Wuthering Heights . |
| 23 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 24 | His international reputation would do credit to Soviet music ; state support would enable him to compose without having to earn his living on the concert platform . |
| 25 | Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) . |
| 26 | How near should he let him come before stepping out to confront him ? |
| 27 | It was the nearest she had known him come to making a joke . |
| 28 | Every movement within a form teaches him to defend by blocking or manoeuvring and then to attack with a strike or a kick . |
| 29 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 30 | But part of the reason is that a lot of the masses as it were , do actually like watching him bumbling around getting muddled up and so on and so forth . |