Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's go for a walk , ’ she said , and he shared with her the feeling that it was impossible to keep still . |
| 2 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 3 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 4 | And , says the writer , " selue may eueri man sen in himself " for he has within him the image of the Trinity : a creative power which enables him to know , and to love what he knows . |
| 5 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 6 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 7 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 8 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 9 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 10 | Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform . |
| 11 | He misrepresented to her the purpose of the advance . |
| 12 | When the Home Secretary meets the car manufacturers in March , will he impress on them the seriousness of the situation and consider compelling them to fit such devices as standard , bearing in mind that , last weekend alone , £100,000 worth of damage was caused by car theft in my constituency ? |
| 13 | When my hon. Friend sees the chairman of the Post Office , will he impress upon him the need for absolute efficiency in delivering election addresses from Labour candidates ? |
| 14 | Should he share with her the discovery of the glass ball in the barrow and its companions in the shed ? |
| 15 | These were Alexander II 's only real choices , but before he decided between them the notion of tying the provinces more closely to the centre had to be ruled out of court . |
| 16 | In 1850 he decided to mine the seam of ironstone cropping out on the Cleveland Hills east of Middlesbrough , soon erecting nine blast-furnaces for its treatment and establishing the commercial viability of Cleveland iron . |
| 17 | He urged on me the need to embark on a full-sized book , and to send him a synopsis as soon as possible . |
| 18 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 19 | When Nicholas McGegan took over from John Eliot Gardiner as Music Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival , he took with him the idea of recording all his performances on CD . |
| 20 | Sir : I am sorry that John Torode ( 3 October ) found the Salman Rushdie seminar ‘ dispiriting ’ , and even more sorry that he perceives in it the birth of a ‘ dangerously illiberal orthodoxy ’ . |
| 21 | He brought with him the kind of gold medal form that helped Great Britain to Olympic glory in the Seoul sunshine . |
| 22 | Kabir said he brought with him the thirst for the infinite . |
| 23 | When he returned two or three minutes later , he brought with him the fragrance ( in Dickensian phrase ) of a fairy emerging from a wine vault , and hiccoughing . |
| 24 | He was concerned with the sale and exchange of fiefs and the preservation of the comital domain : there is some evidence that , like the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 in Gascony , measures intended to clarify and even reform the feudal structure of the comté were initiated under Edward I. In a letter dated 5 June 1285 Edward and Eleanor confirmed a grant by Gerard d'Abbeville , lord of Mons-Bouberc , in which he assigned to her the payment of an annual rent on his property at Abbeville . |
| 25 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 26 | When the Secretary of State sees the Republican representatives again , will he put to them the revulsion that was felt by the Unionist community and by a large section of the Roman Catholic community in Northern Ireland when Mr. Haughey attempted to foist into the Anglo-Irish Conference a new Minister for Defence ? |
| 27 | He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation . |
| 28 | And worst of all he carried with him the sense that he had no right to life , no more than hundreds or thousands of others , starting with his family , who had not lived . |
| 29 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 30 | He carried with him the minister of the Congregational Church , H. C. Carter , and in the back seat three ladies , Mrs Ramsey , and Mrs Carter , and a Danish friend of Mrs Carter . |