Example sentences of "him [prep] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | A POLICEMAN dived into a canal to pull a driver from his crashed car — then booked him for going through a red light . |
| 2 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
| 3 | But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind . |
| 4 | Then I talked him into going to London , as my plan requires . |
| 5 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 6 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 7 | At first it had not mattered that the rain prevented him from going outdoors ; there was so much to talk about between himself and Uncle Walter ; they had not seen each other for twelve years . |
| 8 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 9 | Should you stop him from going out ? |
| 10 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 11 | Deafness , however , did not prevent him from going off to South Africa and taking part in the Boer War . |
| 12 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 13 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 14 | ‘ I was trying to get hold of their coach to stop him from going back to Italy in a casket . |
| 15 | So what was stopping him from going to her and telling her that she had no need to worry ? |
| 16 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 17 | I duly notified ‘ the appropriate authorities ’ , and they replied that they could not prevent him from going because he was an English subject . |
| 18 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 19 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 20 | She looked up into his face , fighting back the urge to reach out her hand and stop him from going . |
| 21 | I mean , it does n't stop him from going shooting and fishing does it ? |
| 22 | She looked at him before going on , for she had been going to say , ‘ beat you up , ’ but she could n't imagine anyone attempting to beat this young fellow up . |
| 23 | I rang Peter from a callbox in Paddington station and asked if I could drop in to see him before going back . |