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 told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 5 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 6 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 7 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 17 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 18 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 21 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 22 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 23 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 24 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 25 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 26 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 27 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 28 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 29 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 30 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |