Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 3 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 4 | Committees are a waste of time , so he deletes them from the diary . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 7 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 8 | If he treats her from the beginning like a woman , elderly perhaps , but still entitled to every courtesy and consideration and some of his undivided attention , and if she treats him with affection and interest , voicing her pride in his achievements , and turning to him for advice on various matters , their relationship is usually off to a good start . |
| 9 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 10 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 11 | It 'll be interesting to see if he makes it into the team . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |
| 13 | Unless he lays it behind the garage . |
| 14 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 15 | But the reader gains as well , because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 16 | But the reader gains as well because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 17 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
| 18 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 19 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 20 | You see him , cos he 's , Nick goes can I have a poster ? no , they 're only for erm the prettiest girl in Clapton and he shook my hand and sort of giving it yeah , before he drags me behind the counter ! |
| 21 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 22 | Charlie , is on his last legs , has been for years and , might as well have him put down , as that Nick keep saying , I think I 'll have to have him put down he , when he takes him for a walk he collapses . |
| 23 | But a financier : when he lays it on the line it 's going to be portraits of presidents cashable in solid US any place on the globe . |
| 24 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 25 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 26 | The closest we get together is when we dance and when he slaps me on the arse and that 's about it . |
| 27 | When he leaves her for the Gipsy and she dances . |
| 28 | There , in the company computer , he imagines he will find tons of choice titbits such as upcoming record store appearances or release dates for new singles — information that will make him a real idol otaku king when he transmits it over the networks to other idol-loving otaku . |
| 29 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 30 | When he greets me at the door , he is still wearing an apron , after ‘ helping out ’ in the attached tea shop which he runs ‘ as a bit of a hobby ’ . |