Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [verb] he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half . |
| 2 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 3 | Having spent years in prison under the old régime , years that had taken their toll and made him look well over seventy , he got up every morning now , threw open the windows of his apartment , and breathed in ‘ the good clean air of freedom ’ . |
| 4 | When he let her go she stared up at him with anguish in her eyes and heard him swear roughly , viciously . |
| 5 | Tithonus directly begs the Gods to release him from their grip and let him die . |
| 6 | Unthinking , she tightened her grip and felt him laugh under her hands . |
| 7 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 8 | Her love for her child has given him comfort and helped him forget his pain . |
| 9 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 10 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 11 | There are lots of fluids out there , they are there for the embalmer to increase his expertise and to help him make his cases better , the chemical companies give technical support and do a lot of research into their products . |
| 12 | In no time at all , he was scrubbed shiny , dressed in his night-shift , and seated in the big armchair , with the heat from the fire drying his hair and making him feel all sleepy . |
| 13 | The cold wind ruffles his hair and makes him flinch for a moment , but it is refreshing after the stale warmth of the house , and he takes a deep breath or two on his way to the garage . |
| 14 | I took his shoulders and made him look at me . |
| 15 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 16 | When the time came for the machine which had been keeping her husband alive to be turned off , my friend faced the reality of his condition and let him go . |
| 17 | He must persuade the Collector of his error and make him realize that his veneration for this Vanity Fair of materialism was misplaced . |
| 18 | She gave him rags to wipe off blood and soil from his body and helped him change out of his blood-stained clothes , the jury heard . |
| 19 | He sniffed the bundle and a drop of water fell on his nose and made him jump . |
| 20 | She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed . |
| 21 | And again there was that sickly sweet stench of cooked flesh which clogged his nostrils and made him want to vomit . |
| 22 | I thought it was really very funny , this long straggly black hair , he looked absolutely miserable , he thought he was now spiritually calm and spiritually sane and he 's got this peculiar thing on his head that makes him look so daft . |
| 23 | Two armed men held a gun to his head and made him drive the bomb to the heart of Westminster after hiring the cab at his office . |
| 24 | They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner . |
| 25 | She was suddenly far too aware that they were alone and would n't be disturbed until morning , too aware that the man whose overpowering masculine strength filled the room was her husband and had certain rights , too aware that the last frail layer of her protective façade had been shattered forever when she had wept in his arms and let him comfort her . |
| 26 | It was obscuring his vision and made him feel faint . |
| 27 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 28 | If I could put a starving child before him and give it food and let him watch it grow well , I know he 'd give money . |
| 29 | Tom took his hand and made him point to the letters , going from left to right , sounding out each one . |
| 30 | Her kind , low voice broke into his thoughts and made him jump . |