Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 2 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 3 | His consistency means that his people know what to expect of him , enabling him to work effectively within a clear framework of expectations . |
| 4 | This was geared to helping him to behave likewise with a failing pupil , so that both he and the child had less need to make others feel useless . |
| 5 | She watched him walk sideways towards the other end of the stage , his arm outstretched in her direction . |
| 6 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 7 | Sophie saw him look anxiously at an upper window as he acknowledged the introduction , then he said ‘ We have to speak very quietly as our little girl is asleep and she does n't know that Sandy is ill . ’ |
| 8 | It made him look more like a ruthless pirate than ever . |
| 9 | Of course I asked him to look carefully at the locked room , but we did n't find anything important . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Trippier , who was said to be expressing the views of his constituents , wrote to Mr Kenneth Clarke on November 24 asking him to look again at the original 6.5 per cent pay offer , saying it was not fair . |
| 11 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 12 | Where the dealer acted as counterparty to the contract he may be willing to unwind the contract with a customer but there is no incentive for him to do so at a competitive price . |
| 13 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 14 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 15 | Our lawyer took the idea to the court , and the judge altered the terms of Rickie 's bail to let him come here for a therapeutic cruise . |
| 16 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 17 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 18 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 19 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 20 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 21 | One day he shied away from an empty crisp bag and fell into a ditch . |
| 22 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 24 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 25 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 26 | He met frequently with the Congressional leaders of both parties ; and he made considerable use of the telephone in seeking the votes of rank-and-file members while also inviting them to the White House in groups . |
| 27 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |
| 28 | Later , as he rode home in the cool night air , a vision of old Bert 's delighted face as he presented him with the larger fish invaded his mind 's eye , and filled him with contentment . |
| 29 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 30 | When David appeared to ignore the pointed question , he asked again in a lewd voice , ‘ Worn her out , have you ? |