Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 2 | I wrote back thanking him and assuring him that there were no hard feelings on my part , but my decision is unchanged . |
| 3 | Even when the need in her grew strong in the dead of night and she lay dose to his slack body , caressing him and urging him , he was never able to fulfil the need in her . |
| 4 | Now this short note cruelly dashed his hopes : the mysterious writer apologised for not meeting him but asked him to wait amongst the ancient ruins to the north-west of the Tower . |
| 5 | The interchange would usually end with Gina kicking Nigel on the shin , clawing him or hitting him if she had something in her hands . |
| 6 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 7 | A nurse was scolding him and telling him to sit down and be quiet . |
| 8 | ‘ People barely had enough food to live on , but thought nothing of bringing him into their homes and feeding him and giving him somewhere to sleep . |
| 9 | When they started making love she protested a little , but he thought this was just talk , since she was kissing him and caressing him . |
| 10 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 11 | I felt like punching him but knew it was stupid to start a fight . |
| 12 | Henry Angus and John MacDonald , who are both from Northampton , admitted forcing Jason Buck to hand over a cash card , punching him and making him drive to his home , where Angus stole a microwave oven . |
| 13 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 14 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 15 | ‘ We did n't want Tim to die without Dominic and Abby seeing him and touching him . |
| 16 | I remember his brother catching him and helping him . |
| 17 | He spun around , dodged another blow from the puzzled guard , and sped back towards the circle , passing on the way the dryads who were pursuing him and leaving them as disorganised as a set of skittles . |
| 18 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 19 | It takes a great deal of sensitivity to provide activities which stimulate the patient 's interest , without exhausting him or making him frustrated if he can not achieve what he wants or what you hope for . |
| 20 | She keeps hearing him and seeing him . |
| 21 | The claim failed when the EAT held that neither the derecognition of an established trade union , nor the disadvantages for employees resulting from that derecognition , was action taken against Mr Wilson ‘ as an individual ’ for the purpose of penalising him or deterring him from being a union member . |
| 22 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 23 | Always sneering at him , jabbing him , hating him and showing it . |
| 24 | She keeps ringing him and sending him presents . ’ |
| 25 | I feel like flogging him but want him treated as well . |
| 26 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 27 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 28 | It 's because you love him that you feel like killing him and wiping him out of your life . |