Example sentences of "him and [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm James and Alex and Danny laughing at him and thinking he 's funny because they all fancy him |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 4 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In several states the personal staff of the foreign minister , chosen by him and handling his correspondence and interviews , was a formally distinct entity . |
| 7 | He was only placated by the ale wife placing a frothing tankard in front of him and throwing him the most longing and sly of glances , as if he was Paris and she Helen of Troy . |
| 8 | On 17 June 1952 a Fellow of Magdalene College walked down Trinity Street in Cambridge and was suddenly aware of the regius professor of divinity waddling ahead of him and throwing his arms about and muttering gloomily to himself , ‘ Hell ! |
| 9 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 10 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 11 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 12 | Bair unflinchingly demonstrates the extent to which de Beauvoir was obsessed by Sartre , unwilling and unable to free herself of him and sacrificing everything to him , including other women . |
| 13 | spending an , an evening waiting for him and seeing him |
| 14 | She keeps hearing him and seeing him . |
| 15 | Regardless of your personal feelings towards the Chairman , you must afford him the utmost respect in addressing him and obeying his rulings . |
| 16 | When they started making love she protested a little , but he thought this was just talk , since she was kissing him and caressing him . |
| 17 | Jacob thought at first , perhaps , that he was wrestling with a brother intent on killing him and getting his revenge . |
| 18 | I want you , ’ she confided passionately , arching against him and repeating it urgently . |
| 19 | The 16-year-old boy complained that his mother , who remarried and had three younger sons by her second husband , kept picking on him and ridiculing him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Maria paused , looking at him and loving him so much it hurt . |
| 22 | ‘ I can easily go back to normal , ’ Maggie got out quickly but he reached out and captured her hand , spinning her towards him and catching her in his arms . |
| 23 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 24 | I wrote back thanking him and assuring him that there were no hard feelings on my part , but my decision is unchanged . |
| 25 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 26 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 27 | A nurse was scolding him and telling him to sit down and be quiet . |
| 28 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 29 | ‘ We did n't want Tim to die without Dominic and Abby seeing him and touching him . |
| 30 | Eleanor said , bending over him and kissing him . |