Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 2 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 3 | The dogs ' descendants were still with him , though rheumatism made it difficult for him to go scrambling over the fields at night with the powerful torch to blind the rabbits . |
| 4 | ‘ She knows we 're anxious to see him , and does n't expect him to go rushing off to see her the minute he arrives . ’ |
| 5 | He was playing alone near his home when he was approached by the boys who wanted him to go shoplifting . |
| 6 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 7 | McNally alleged he was the victim of an unprovoked blow to the face which caused him to fall hitting his head on the floor . |
| 8 | She waited for him to continue speaking , but he simply studied her with a detached speculation that did nothing to soothe her ragged nerves . |
| 9 | This encourages him to continue unwinding his thread . |
| 10 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 11 | Gable refused to work further and Metro 's boy-wonder Irving Thalberg had to fly out to the location at Catalina to calm Gable down and persuade him to continue filming . |
| 12 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 13 | John got him to sit facing backward in the saddle , resting the foot on the horse 's rump . |
| 14 | His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars . |
| 15 | and I , they informed him want scrumping was |
| 16 | The nearest YMCA centre is in Ripon and Mr King said it was an article in The Northern Echo which first made him consider establishing a YMCA home in Darlington . |
| 17 | The nearest YMCA centre is in Ripon and Mr King said it was an article in The Northern Echo which first made him consider establishing a YMCA home in Darlington . |
| 18 | ‘ She never knew ’ , said Gran , ‘ that Jake 'd leave him to come looking for her , and ne'er see him grown . |
| 19 | Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect . |
| 20 | Besides , she was thinking , what on earth had possessed him to come rushing over here just because she wanted to see him ? |
| 21 | I waited all evening for the shout of anger , for him to come bursting in and beat the evil out of the liar . |
| 22 | Fink 's boss — a crassly stupid studio chief — sets him to work writing a ‘ wrestling picture to star Wallace Berry ’ . |
| 23 | Casting around for a task for the Crown Prince , Palace advisers had considered putting him to work leading a development campaign within the Commonwealth , before the inner-city initiative seized his imagination . |
| 24 | A little boy wearing a balaclava cap too large for him came trotting out of the house . |
| 25 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 26 | This business of him going missing … ’ began the Brigadier , ‘ It 's possible that he might have been involved in something big . |
| 27 | Do n't want him going missing . |
| 28 | It is through the prompting of the Holy Spirit that the Bible reader gains the mind of Christ , which enables him to apply teaching given centuries ago to contemporary life . |
| 29 | If the trailer knows that the car he wishes to sell has already been ‘ clocked , ’ the way for him to avoid committing an offence is , not to ‘ clock ’ it further himself , but to give the customer a candid intimation of its falsity , i. e. a disclaimer . |
| 30 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |