Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have applied to vote by proxy and your application is allowed the registration officer will issue your proxy with a ‘ proxy paper ’ which entitles him or her to go to the polling station and vote for you . |
| 2 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 3 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 4 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 5 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 6 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 7 | There was something awry with directors ' reasons for casting him and something unnourishing in the West End audiences ' response , but he smothered the knowledge of it . |
| 8 | Him and her sat on the fence , the they 're slobbering away ! |
| 9 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 10 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |
| 11 | He had a Corporal with him and we doubled to the front of Brigade H.Q and clambered aboard a jeep that had a trailer attached . |
| 12 | Well , I found him and we went to the " liable relatives ' section of the DHSS . |
| 13 | After several months of stalling , he believed Hashemi had tricked him and he went to the United States to retrieve his money — and save his face with his ‘ superiors ’ in the PPP . |
| 14 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 15 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 16 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 17 | However , King was determined to catch him and he moved into the lead for the next two laps before Joey hit back and with a speed of 110.34mph regained the advantage . |
| 18 | A convulsion shook him and he scrabbled at the ground , covering himself in a mask of wet earth and blood . |
| 19 | His mount threw him and he stayed on the beach , witnesses swear to that . |
| 20 | Reid admitted : ‘ That hurt him and it got to the stage where he was n't getting in there to take chances . |
| 21 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 22 | He asked him if he belonged to the loyalist section of the population and he replied that he did . |
| 23 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
| 24 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 25 | She rubbed him until he ejaculated into the bathwater . |
| 26 | Emmie tried to get hold of him but he fought like the baby wild cat her mother had once been given to tame . |
| 27 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 28 | He walks off and I watch him till he disappears round the corner . |
| 29 | But I 'm lucky , cos there 's this bloke who comes along , so when the lights turn green I just follow along behind him till I get to the other side . |
| 30 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |