Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina had remained silent after Rune 's surprise announcement , allowing him to conduct her through the gates and across the road to the Mercedes . |
| 2 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 3 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 4 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 5 | The gunman forced him to drive him to a stretch of the A61 near Thirsk , North Yorkshire . |
| 6 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 7 | The sculptor is encouraged to deepen the relief to make the figures stand out better ; and this in turn , making them more like statues , encourages him to treat them in the convention of free sculpture rather than that of drawing . |
| 8 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 9 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 10 | Then they formed up around him to escort him from the arena . |
| 11 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 12 | ‘ But why did you ask him to meet you in the garden instead of in the house ? ’ |
| 13 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
| 14 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 15 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 16 | Buddhists who 've seen him describe him as a 6ft 4in tall man with big limbs and hands . |
| 17 | Would n't like him to catch me under the kissing bough . ’ |
| 18 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 19 | Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa . |
| 20 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 21 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 22 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 23 | Rachel allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor , but his callous dismissal of the unfortunate Domino was symptomatic of the kind of man he was . |
| 24 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 25 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 26 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 27 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 28 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 29 | She allowed him to corner her in the pantry . |
| 30 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |