Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 2 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 3 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 4 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 5 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 6 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 7 | But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him . |
| 8 | I do n't suppose it 's serious , but he 's so terrified of Blue Ear Disease that he watches them like a hawk . ’ |
| 9 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 10 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 12 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 13 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 14 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 15 | Committees are a waste of time , so he deletes them from the diary . |
| 16 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 17 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 18 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 19 | Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book ! |
| 20 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
| 21 | He holds it in his mouth , he picks out a match and he strikes it on the box . |
| 22 | There 's this little bent old man with a shopping trolley thing and he bashes it into the back of my legs . |
| 23 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 25 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 26 | Typical James , thought Cameron , as he handed back the flask and looked at his friend 's flushed face : we are plotting to save our lives and he turns it into a holiday . |
| 27 | Few months down the line , and he sells him at a loss . |
| 28 | His approach , in its essentials , was formed by the early 1930s , and he extends it during the 1940s only in the direction of even greater pessimism : cultural ‘ totalitarianism ’ becomes absolute . |
| 29 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 30 | And this man goes , right love , and he takes her in an alley way and she goes thanks , and like , he goes come on then , let's do it now . |