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Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house .
2	It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house .
3	He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day .
4	It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way .
5	If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience .
6	On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone .
7	She darted a look at Niall 's profile , only to find him studying her in a way she found oddly disturbing .
8	I caught him watching me in the third .
9	Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway .
10	I found him cursing her for the border .
11	If the Soviet Union had kept proper watch on Mr Castro , it would never have let him pull it into the missile crisis of 1962 .
12	She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation .
13	It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room .
14	She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him .
15	But she let him help her into a chair .
16	She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself .
17	The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case .
18	‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said .
19	As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room .
20	Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper .
21	Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady .
22	She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate .
23	I was impressed , then I noticed him clocking her in the mirror behind the bar .
24	I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house .
25	so I told him to keep them on the back of that door .
26	From the beginning , from that electrifying moment when she 'd felt him watching her at the Fabbiano showing , she 'd wanted his kisses , wanted the thrust of his body into hers .
27	Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq .
28	He spurred forward to Moray 's side , urging him to bring him to the Regent , earls or none .
29	Buddhists who 've seen him describe him as a 6ft 4in tall man with big limbs and hands .
30	The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex .