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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] he [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't .
2	I tried to picture him under the sheet .
3	One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart .
4	I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone .
5	I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee .
6	I decided to phone him in the evening .
7	I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra .
8	Early in the morning I went to see him at the Castle .
9	He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know .
10	‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’
11	But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’
12	I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did .
13	But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops .
14	‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’
15	For instance , I wanted to feed him on the baby food in jars and I keep telling her I do , but I end up feeding him the powdered food like my mum wants .
16	I wanted to ask him about the room , if anyone has cancelled .
17	So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning .
18	I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways .
19	‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present .
20	For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved .
21	‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head .
22	It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror .
23	If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition .
24	Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground .
25	Only last week she had told Henry ( who had lived in Maple Drive for twelve years ) that she wished to welcome him to the neighbourhood .
26	He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away .
27	It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it .
28	She wanted to say that not only was that ridiculous but it was dangerous , she wanted to tell him about the frightening minutes in the maze of old Nice .
29	I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that
30	‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson .