Example sentences of "him [v-ing] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other two men saw him looking at it . |
| 2 | Alex saw him looking at it as he came back with the glasses . |
| 3 | I heard him shouting at it . |
| 4 | One of his body squires heard him whispering about it to his Gascon favourite . ’ |
| 5 | He 's got er a video box of mine so I were him asking about it . |
| 6 | Hitch had arranged details of the job and Plummer felt safe enough with him dealing with it . |
| 7 | But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members . |
| 8 | She knew that dead people could be kept in this state because the man who lived next door to Mrs MacDonagh worked in an undertakers , and Ellie had heard him talking about it to Mrs MacDonagh . |
| 9 | The thought of him thinking about it means I ca n't help thinking about it , too . |
| 10 | ‘ He was n't too enthralled at first but he listened after a while and I 've left him thinking about it . |