Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 2 | Their underlying feeling is that Frank Williams has blundered badly and they are saying : ‘ What a mess he has made of it all ! ’ |
| 3 | He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls . |
| 4 | The book that he has written with his former research student , a linguist and historian , although concentrating on a remote and antique land , is the first full definition of the scope of this new historical science . |
| 5 | Now I think what erm and my feelings on this er are very much er similar to Mr Donson 's and I 'm grateful for the calculation he has done for us all . |
| 6 | He has brought with him some psychedelic mushrooms to grow at work . |
| 7 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 8 | For his part in a week-long happening at Glasgow 's Tramway Theatre in early May — ‘ an exploration around the body , halfway between theatre and sculptor ’ — he has drawn on his own private nightmare . |
| 9 | He has perished at his own hands at the death . |
| 10 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 11 | He does care about his own looks , but not in the conventional way . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , so long as he does know about it that 's all that matters . |
| 13 | He remains to look after his own infants and strikes a ‘ bargain ’ with the newcomer so that , while he remains sexually inactive , he assists his victorious opponent in preventing yet further take-overs of the unit . |
| 14 | He claims to learn from his own case what , for example , pain is . |
| 15 | I do n't know how Wheeler knows him except that Charles has a cottage on the Cumbermound estate so perhaps he 's come across him that way . |
| 16 | The last three assistants he 's had like you all found him very eligible . |
| 17 | It 's the hold he 's got on me that 's the trouble . |