Example sentences of "[verb] he [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 2 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
| 3 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 4 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 5 | His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight . |
| 6 | send him that back . |
| 7 | No , they would simply tell him again to mind his own business and send him another note composed of gibberish . |
| 8 | Go to his office and make a scene , or send him some flowers there with a really embarrassing message , or something . |
| 9 | If I had an Access card I would buy him this that and everything . |
| 10 | She was n't about to grant him that , or anything . |
| 11 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 12 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |
| 13 | But something told her that she could trust him more than any of her so-called friends . |
| 14 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
| 15 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |
| 16 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 17 | The Anglo-American conglomerate that went public in 1964 romped in with results that should guarantee him another bumper pay packet . |
| 18 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 19 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 20 | As the Lent term progressed , besides his letters to Helen and Harry ( containing verses , some of which survive ) and his quick recovery from his failure to gain an entrance scholarship to Merton , he had renewed an acquaintance with MacAlister — an old Pauline friend — who visited him each Sunday . |
| 21 | She visited him that day . |
| 22 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 23 | Bones does n't suit him any more . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The way we play did n't suit him any more . |
| 25 | But time passed ; the picture faded , moved him less . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't even know him all that well . ’ |
| 27 | You 've got to remember I did n't know him all that well . |
| 28 | I do n't know him this is bad as |
| 29 | SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers . |
| 30 | She had survived for four years without him ; she did n't need him any more . |