Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume . |
| 2 | Which is why I 'm keepin' a guard on Brett , in case this one-man demolition squad decides to have another go at takin' him out . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Protecting him again , Father Abbot ? |
| 4 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 5 | They were just tearing him apart — really eating into him . ’ |
| 6 | The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room . |
| 7 | Furious , Dr Dunstaple now seemed on the point of turning on the Padre and mowing the wiry cleric down with his fists , but by this time Louise and Mrs Dunstaple had hastened to his side and now they dragged him away , hushing him desperately . |
| 8 | Who was mucking him out and hosing him down ? |
| 9 | Alyssia glanced up at him , disliking him even more than she would have imagined possible . |
| 10 | She climbed inside , disliking him as much as she ever had . |
| 11 | But it 's not that that 's keeping him away from tomorrow 's London marathon . |
| 12 | There was no real way of keeping him away from Irish friends … unless of course , he were to have an accident too — something that would keep him at home for several months preferably . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm supposedly responsible for keeping him away . ’ |
| 14 | But , by keeping him on as State Secretary , Mr Yeltsin is ensuring that his trusted colleague from his days as Communist Party chief in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) remains firmly in charge of all presidential structures . |
| 15 | ‘ It was the only way he could be sure of keeping him here next year , ’ muttered Glenda Grower to Penny Warlock . |
| 16 | In Francis ' case , a serious breach was involved in keeping him incommunicado , but this was ( to use the trial judge 's expression ) ‘ counterbalanced ’ by the belated granting of access to a solicitor and Francis ' subsequent decision to sign the notes as correct . |
| 17 | ‘ You were n't keeping him straight . |
| 18 | Theo was soon keeping him well supplied with prints and etchings as well as art materials . |
| 19 | well she got what she wanted then , whatever it is anyway , she 's keeping him virtually and they got this flat , whatever they 've got , and erm |
| 20 | So after that I would never let him out to play , but then a social worker came to complain that I was keeping him in and away from other children . " |
| 21 | Keeping him in overnight was just a precautionary measure because of his age and past history , but I do n't see why he should n't go , provided he keeps up the antibiotics . |
| 22 | An AK47 cracked again , keeping him down low , and blind . |
| 23 | The wound was clean and dressed ; there was no point in keeping him inside with such a shortage of hospital beds . |
| 24 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 25 | Cheney declared himself " stunned , angry and frustrated " by his involvement in the scandal and , like many other offenders , blamed dubious administrative practices by the bank for not keeping a more accurate record of the state of his account and for not keeping him more closely informed of his financial position . |
| 26 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 27 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 28 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 29 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 30 | Ruth went first with Adam , manhandling him in ; the roof was a cracked slab wedged at an angle , and there was only room to stand . |