Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've told yer before , 'e pays less than any ovver firm in Bermondsey an' 'e sacks 'is workers fer the least fing. 'E would n't tolerate the union fer ages an' as soon as any of 'is workers tried ter get the union in they were put off . |
| 2 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 3 | ‘ Again I felt uneasy , but I allowed him to continue his tour of the premises . |
| 4 | He not only received an excellent education at the recently founded Perse School in Cambridge , but afterwards a bursary from the school enabled him to continue his studies in the University at Caius College . |
| 5 | No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad . |
| 6 | He wanted him to see his Father in a shooting war . |
| 7 | Watching through the window , Lucy saw him make his way towards the wool shed , his strides long , as though he wished to get there in a hurry . |
| 8 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 9 | Dougal could hear him scrubbing his hands in the bathroom . |
| 10 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 11 | These doctors must be grossly overpaid , unless — yes , Toby Latimer clearly had a private income which allowed him to indulge his tastes to the full . |
| 12 | It will be difficult for him to enforce his writ in the far-flung reaches of the country . |
| 13 | He was developing an acute social and political conscience , and I could see him devoting his life to the Labour Party . |
| 14 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 15 | One friend has described him checking his wristwatch with an almost deliberate thoroughness : " He slowly and methodically raised his left hand and with his right hand carefully pushed back his coat sleeve and shirt sleeve at the same time and then painstakingly , at close range , studied the face of the dial . |
| 16 | Wait for the opponent to move , or force him to pull his weight off the front foot before sweeping or hooking it . |
| 17 | I raised my eyebrows , resolving , as I did so , to let him know my side of the story as soon as possible . |
| 18 | ‘ Let him hould his hoult till the day is over , anyway , ’ Joe said . |
| 19 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 20 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 21 | Bernice could see him tapping his umbrella on the floor , pretending to study the walls , and glancing back impatiently as if he could n't believe that his companions were still unable to follow him . |
| 22 | Her stomach twisted as in that moment she seemed to feel him pierce her loins in the act of impregnation . |
| 23 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |
| 24 | I took him to the St Petersburg library , let him show me pictures of the uniforms . |
| 25 | If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased . |
| 26 | With blind obedience , I allowed him to organise my life until the age of 12 , when I underwent a sudden and dramatic personality change . |
| 27 | Some dragon of a receptionist refused to let him see her boss without an appointment . |
| 28 | I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or inspected them while they were being fed ; 1 can see him cleaning his rifle in the verandah of his tent , or sitting chatting with my mother by the fire in the evening . |
| 29 | The Commission found that Greiner had acted improperly in sanctioning the appointment of Terry Metherell , an independent member of the state legislature , to a well-paid public service position in the Environmental Protection Authority , a post which required him to resign his seat in the legislature . |
| 30 | The burgeoning Sagawa Kyubin scandal , which in late August had forced Shin Kanemaru to resign as vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) [ see pp. 39049-10 ] , in October forced him to resign his seat in the Diet ( parliament ) and to retire from public life . |