Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |
| 2 | The moment she encountered him again the old hostility would erupt and this feeling of awareness would vanish . |
| 3 | He personalised it , he told him exactly the benefit of escalating premiums , and he could n't say anything other than yes , because it was what he wanted . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel like I 'm in prison and I do n't understand the crime , ’ she told him once the preliminaries were over . |
| 5 | ’ The instincts of Robert Louis Stevenson — that sanguine consumptive with the heart of a child — told him much the same : |
| 6 | Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe . |
| 7 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 8 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 9 | At Warley the abbot of Halesowen 's rent for the farm of the manor is entered as a separate item , but the identity of the farmer is not revealed ; we may hazard the guess that he was William Hardeley , whose personal estate , amounting to £30 , made him much the wealthiest man in the village . |
| 10 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 11 | It made him all the more determined to do something . |
| 12 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 13 | The English girl was efficient and brought him just the right touch of warmth . |
| 14 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 15 | She 'd once worried that when she saw him again the old feelings might come back , but she felt nothing . |
| 16 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 17 | His own country offered him only the deathbed of his mother , and twelve years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 19 | He was an ex-miner , and this endeared him all the more to Chapman , who , being familiar with mining , knew and admired the strength and fighting qualities which life down the pit bred in a man . |
| 20 | As he nuzzled him gently the head rolled sideways and back again . |