Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] he [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 2 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 3 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 4 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 5 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 6 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |