Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Again I felt uneasy , but I allowed him to continue his tour of the premises . |
| 3 | No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad . |
| 4 | He wanted him to see his Father in a shooting war . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It will be difficult for him to enforce his writ in the far-flung reaches of the country . |
| 9 | He was developing an acute social and political conscience , and I could see him devoting his life to the Labour Party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wait for the opponent to move , or force him to pull his weight off the front foot before sweeping or hooking it . |
| 13 | I raised my eyebrows , resolving , as I did so , to let him know my side of the story as soon as possible . |
| 14 | ‘ Let him hould his hoult till the day is over , anyway , ’ Joe said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | With blind obedience , I allowed him to organise my life until the age of 12 , when I underwent a sudden and dramatic personality change . |
| 20 | Some dragon of a receptionist refused to let him see her boss without an appointment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This attitude also led him to express his distaste for the American-sponsored discussions on world trade , known as the Kennedy Round , that were currently being conducted within GATT : again , he suspected that they would produce a heightened American influence in Europe , something that would not be in Western Europe 's or France 's interests . |
| 25 | Its members , led by a former Scottish Office minister , Sir Russell Fairgrieve , will seek a meeting with Mr Lang to urge him to exercise his influence in the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers for Scottish MEPs to be elected by PR , which could dramatically affect Labour 's dominant position in seven out of the eight European seats . |
| 26 | ‘ Better than that , I 'll have him kick their ass off the island . ’ |
| 27 | By Christ and Leonard I shall love no failing clerk nor do I care to receive a clerk within the house nor on the floor ; let him keep his arse outside the door ! |
| 28 | It also enabled him to wrap his hand round the glass , even if it had a handle , in a manner peculiarly his own . |
| 29 | The conclusion is irresistible that Mr Mandela is exploiting the government 's growing dependence on him to extend his influence to the many black organisations whose adoptive leader he is . |
| 30 | From behind the ruched net curtains , she could see him plodding his way around the green . |