Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 2 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 3 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 4 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 5 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 6 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 8 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 10 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 11 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 12 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 13 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 14 | You know that 's what I said to him on the phone ! |
| 15 | And I said to him on the weekend . |
| 16 | that 's cos I said to him round the other way |
| 17 | I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time . |
| 18 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 19 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 20 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 21 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 22 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 23 | You came to him through the spirits of your ancestors so that spirit worship and fear of the spirits of your relatives was very real to the people . " |
| 24 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 25 | She was afraid that he would wake Peter if she talked to him in the hall . |
| 26 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 27 | From the warmth in her voice , she spoke to him on the comm , I began to suspect that she and Chertro might have been more than friends at one time . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you wrote to him on the day that he died . |
| 29 | And we talked to him about the Intercity erm presentation requirements , and sent him away to think about it . |
| 30 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |