Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wayne was home , and the two dogs were barking and scrambling to greet him . |
| 2 | He thought police were playing some elaborate game of cat and mouse and waiting to trap him . |
| 3 | James Shaw , 33 , unemployed , of Nelson Drive , Littleham , Exmouth , denies conspiring to murder Mr Brown between June 1 and September 14 last year and attempting to murder him between August 13 and 16 . |
| 4 | Robert McLaren , 30 , made the claim at the High Court sitting at Perth when his brother was accused of endangering his life and attempting to murder him . |
| 5 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |
| 6 | However , when dealing with the primary sufferer and attempting to get him or her to seek appropriate treatment through a 12 Step programme it is best to avoid antagonising the denial system by being too direct . |
| 7 | Anthony McDonald , 29 , of Deanston Road , Shawlands , Glasgow , admitted wearing a mask and presenting an axe at an employee of the Bank of Scotland , Kilmarnock Road , Glasgow , and attempting to rob him on 20 January . |
| 8 | Nicholas 's voice checked him for a moment but when he turned he saw that the taxi driver was out of the cab and attempting to restrain him . |
| 9 | Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter-service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . |
| 10 | He claimed she retaliated by turning the children against him and threatening to kill him , at one point sending him a Valentine 's Day card with skewers and a knife stuck in it . |
| 11 | But Edward was stunned last week to receive an abrupt letter from the DoE accusing him of ‘ damaging ’ their land and threatening to take him to court . |
| 12 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 13 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 14 | Storrie admitted that in the early hours of 17 May last year he robbed the two 19-year-olds of £7 and a watch after seizing the man in Wilson Street , Glasgow , and threatening to stab him . |
| 15 | Salt seared his lungs and then the panicked Gomez flung his arms round Trent 's neck , choking him and threatening to drag him back down . |
| 16 | The instructor then left the Cheetah , having briefed his student about an impending change of circuit direction and having authorised him to practise solo circuits for an hour . |
| 17 | And having destroyed him , it was this other side of the ambivalence that came back to haunt them as a sense of guilt and deferred obedience , and out of guilt , they instituted the incest , the incest prohibition . |
| 18 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 19 | And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady . |
| 20 | If you do n't see him , you 've got to make all your points religiously until you see him , and having found him , he makes a note in his diary , and you make a note in yours and you 're away . |
| 21 | Hartman presents himself in a complicated relationship with Derrida : engaging with him , succumbing to him , imitating him , and trying to resist him . |
| 22 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 23 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 24 | There you are with some glum , drunken , disapproving monster and you creep round asking him what 's wrong and trying to cheer him up . ’ |
| 25 | I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away . |
| 26 | So she stayed with him , on the dark landing , holding his shivering little body and trying to comfort him . |
| 27 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |
| 28 | Do something before it goes ! ’ she cried , catching his arm and trying to shake him into action . |
| 29 | ‘ The police carried him through the crowd while all the people jumped at him , screaming and trying to attack him . ’ |