Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 What is important is what a person is ‘ concerned and accountable ’ for , what he ‘ owns and imputes to … self ’ , what his ‘ conscience [ is ] accusing or excusing him ’ of .
2 On May 24 Pakistan ordered a senior Indian diplomat to leave the country after he accused Pakistani intelligence officials of abducting and torturing him .
3 The word ‘ mithra ’ was also used to describe a friend , and this god was thought to be a true friend of man , protecting and warming him in life and death .
4 His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium .
5 Laughing and fighting him ineffectually , his grandmother roared pleasantries at him in a mixture of Ruthenian and broken English .
6 Emily ? … laughing and teasing him about deserving a white feather … ?
7 Most people had come to understand the danger posed by Hitler 's Germany ; but they decided to delude themselves into believing that giving him Austria and Czechoslovakia would buy him off .
8 Now Helen , loving and admiring him , had given him the confidence he needed to be happy .
9 The marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood , but that did n't stop Topaz from wanting and loving him .
10 The sergeant followed him in and found him smoking and put him on a discipline charge — idling his time .
11 ‘ You should be ashamed of yourself , ’ she said to Pooley , ‘ aiding and abetting him like this .
12 Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon .
13 If you were close to the patient before his stroke , and were used to showing him affection by touching and kissing him , and if you still feel the same warmth for him despite his illness , you can help his morale greatly by continuing to behave as before , even if he seems not to respond .
14 So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record .
15 In his head they were trash too , for trusting and believing him .
16 Tyndale was denounced as a heretic to the Bishop 's Chancellor , who ‘ threatened him grievously , reviling and rating him as though he were a dog ’ .
17 In the future , every time you caution a person , enter the particulars in your notebook , and see he does n't get a second caution , and also remember that it is not necessary to caution a person before summonsing or arresting him , as the case may be .
18 He 'll force you to take life at a slower pace , to put your feet up when you feed him , and to enjoy cuddling and stroking him .
19 The first jog round the block got his heart racing and gave him an appetite .
20 He tried to yell instructions , but water smashed into his face , filling his mouth and nose , suffocating and blinding him .
21 " You can tell him , " I said , turning and looking him in the face , " that you were entirely mistaken ; that my boss really is my boss , and that I 'm not going to have a baby . "
22 Assaulting a constable , or obstructing or resisting him in the execution of his duty are all specific statutory offences .
23 It is the sense of striving that makes him interesting .
24 And then Adam holding and reassuring him in his turn , himself utterly without comfort .
25 If in the unlikely event , if they want to feel a C C Q , let them have it , do n't , do n't because that person may be a tax he , he buys he has to feel what he 's buying and to deprive him from that you really are up against it .
26 He also visited Lurgan and the late Mrs Sleator once related how , as a very small girl in Lurgan on that day in 1902 , she disregarded her mother 's instructions that she was not to leave home ( ‘ I am still obstinate ! ’ she confided ) , went to the Town Hall where the General was speaking and saw him there .
27 Elstob then turned on him , punching and kicking him .
28 Brown was found guilty after trial of assaulting Mr Kelly , 23 , by punching and kicking him about the head and body , seizing hold of him , stabbing him on the body with a knife and to the danger of his life .
29 A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications .
30 She did n't want Rose Lipman retaliating and telling him what had been found down her sock .
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