Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car .
2 This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip .
3 I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage .
4 When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience .
5 He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc .
6 With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing .
7 Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ?
8 He messed us about this weekend did n't he ?
9 He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! '
10 He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’
11 He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them .
12 I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we …
13 Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail .
14 he brought it in this morning
15 He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before .
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