Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 2 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 3 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 4 | On his saint 's day she summons him into her inmost boudoir , dismisses her girls , permits him to braid her hair and for a moment to fondle her breasts . |
| 5 | When she accompanies him to Palm Beach , he drops all his girlfriends , goes to church and prays , and becomes the model husband . |
| 6 | Later she sprays him with an atomiser . |
| 7 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 8 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 9 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 10 | My mother 's in despair — says she ca n't look her MP in the face when she meets him at Church . |
| 11 | When she meets him after her seduction by the Older Man , they are tragically tense and withdrawn . |
| 12 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 13 | JEREMY Irons says his wife does n't worry when she sees him in sexy scenes on the big screen because she knows he 's not that good . |
| 14 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 15 | She takes him to a tailor ( hence the gorgeous green suit and bowler hat ) , hires a tutor and even buys him a car . |
| 16 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
| 17 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 18 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 19 | ‘ You know Howard , do n't you ? ’ she says , as she levers him into conversations at parties . |
| 20 | She writes to Armel that what matters in their narrative are ‘ the innumerable and ever-escaping levels of Utterance by the I who is not the I who says I ’ and she advises him to ‘ read Irigaray ’ on this concept ( 53/631 ) . |
| 21 | Steven stop running about , sounds like it , you do that again I will , she says , you do that again and I 'm gon na smack you , right , come here , and she gets him and she whacks him in front of every body , did n't she Robert ? |
| 22 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 23 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 24 | She tells him For Women have been swamped with fan mail and want to do a contemporary shoot . |
| 25 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 26 | She puts him in front of the TV ( line 15 ) . |
| 27 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |
| 28 | She follows him into his office . |
| 29 | She follows him through a courtyard at the back , under an archway , and then on to a rough grass path that disappears into the trees . |
| 30 | For reasons undisclosed she follows him to Cloisterham , where she unwittingly reveals her hatred of him to Datchery . |