Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 2 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 3 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 4 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 5 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 6 | God under takes to teach us through the Spirit if we will allow him to lead us into a closer understanding of and obedience to Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness . |
| 8 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 9 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 10 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 11 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 12 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 13 | Mr eleven year old son offered to help so one of the put a gun to him and forced him to lead them to him threatening him at the same time . |
| 14 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 15 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 16 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 17 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 19 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 20 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 21 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 22 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 23 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 24 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 25 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 26 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 27 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 28 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 29 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 30 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |