Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to the edge of the field , and seeing a man walking his dog asked him where he was . |
| 2 | When he reached the fighting , he charged in amongst the Dragoons , shouting loudly and urging his companions to follow him . |
| 3 | One was Hank , who stood at his side , pulling his sleeve to make him stop . |
| 4 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's only a play , ’ said Araminta , holding his hand to comfort him . |
| 6 | One high-earning salesperson of office equipment attributed his success to the preparation he conducted before every sales visit ; this involved knowing his product 's capabilities , understanding his client 's needs , and matching these together by getting his wife to test him every evening and at the weekend ( Kennedy et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Joshua Cohen had long ago recognised that Jacob would never make a businessman and had quickly abandoned his dream of having his son join him in his scrap-iron store . |
| 8 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 9 | John , from Durham , spent the whole night locked in the shed and said that he regretted ever letting his dog copy him when he locked up . |
| 10 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 11 | Pooley cursed himself for letting his vanity give him away . |
| 12 | Descended from a Huguenot family , he was originally a professional viola player until in 1975 a neurological problem affecting his arm obliged him to stop . |
| 13 | Perhaps the enormity of the facts and figures reaching his desk enabled him to overcome , for the first time , the old Marxists who were already resisting his attempts to change the way things were done . |
| 14 | Once more he tried to stand , gritting his teeth , willing his muscles to obey him . |
| 15 | In any event the time for sovereigns meeting was long past and in the particular case of Prussia Napoleon III was not being stalked by the King but by Bismarck , who had no intention of allowing his quarry to elude him . |
| 16 | Where Maxse did find himself more or less isolated was in allowing his frustrations to lead him , along with Willoughby de Broke , to consider the formation of an alternative party of the right . |
| 17 | Next we worked together on using his imagination to help him visualize putting the ball from any position on the green and watching it roll gently into the hole . |
| 18 | Simon Cormack , seeing his rescuers approaching him , slowed until he was hardly jogging at all . |
| 19 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 20 | Chamlong Simaung , the popular and charismatic Governor of Bangkok and leader of the Palang Dharma , announced on Jan. 14 that he was resigning his post to allow him to stand in the forthcoming elections in Bangkok Constituency 2 , one of the country 's most fiercely contested seats . |