Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 2 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 3 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 4 | I tried phoning him yesterday but there were no answer and then I thought oh bugger it , forget it . |
| 5 | I also knew that soon after she stopped seeing him she died . |
| 6 | Tears filled her eyes as she described seeing him looking down on her . |
| 7 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 8 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 9 | Knowing something of his work and leisure patterns , she tried meeting him ‘ accidentally ’ coming out of his office or at his local pub , all to no avail . |
| 10 | ‘ Just because I left him , ’ she said , ‘ it does n't mean I stopped loving him . |
| 11 | I wondered how long it would be before I stopped loving him . |
| 12 | Her lips parted under his , she moaned softly , and all at once she knew that she had never , not for a heartbeat , stopped loving him . |
| 13 | ‘ I mentioned meeting him , ’ he corrected her impatiently . |
| 14 | Jim tried coaxing him away with a glass of brandy , which Albert thought a low device . |
| 15 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 16 | I tried getting him slimmer once as I thought it might help him to jump even better , but it did n't suit him . |
| 17 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 18 | At one time his patents even tried giving him mineral water shipped to them specially from a mine , believing their son could be allergic to the fluoride in tap water . |
| 19 | I tried commanding him — as if I were an angel — but he only got nasty . |
| 20 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 21 | One of them proposed arresting him as he lay on his bed and taking him off to prison with all the bedclothes . |
| 22 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 23 | ‘ So you stopped tailing him , ’ Agnes suggested helpfully . |
| 24 | So several of us tried standing him on his head and quickly reversing him . |
| 25 | First , to have been caught spying on him , and then caught discussing him . |
| 26 | I decided , yesterday , yesterday I stopped fancying him , but I changed my mind again . |
| 27 | She tried teasing him with her perfectly-rounded breasts , swinging the soft globes against his face . |
| 28 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 29 | A year later he was in more conflict with the BBBC which delayed granting him permission to fight in Australia after he had left the country . |
| 30 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |