Example sentences of "[prep] he [conj] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 2 | ‘ We must take Landor , and if he goes , Wilson must go to look after him for we can not and the Storys can not be imposed upon again . |
| 3 | Then , pulling a large white ashtray towards him so it would be within easy reach , he lit a cigarette . |
| 4 | Maybe I 'm being a bit more tolerant towards him than I would be if I had n't met him . |
| 5 | Pity made her more friendly towards him than she might otherwise have been . |
| 6 | There were no lights near by or below him but he could see the lake stretching into the night off to the left , its surface catching the lights of the buildings and city sky over by the edge of the Park . |
| 7 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 8 | I needed to fly dead into wind approaching the pilot , but keeping him on my right , and I 'd drop the dinghy slightly upwind of him so it would blow downwind to him . |
| 9 | Boyle said : ‘ I was trying to keep hold of him so he could n't get at me . |
| 10 | He shocks deliberately : it has come to be expected of him so he will oblige . |
| 11 | On a groan and a sigh as men are supposed to attain their pleasure and then — as she remembered from her one other experience — there came his reluctance to move away from her , her panic urgency to be free of him while there might still be a chance that no damage had been done . |
| 12 | And perhaps our marriage did n't last long , but I had more of him than you 'll ever have . |
| 13 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 14 | When he first came the villagers wanted to get rid of him but he would n't go , and as he made himself useful they came to endure him . |
| 15 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 16 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 17 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |
| 18 | She was so powerfully aware of him that she could feel the ripples of panic beginning to spread . |
| 19 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 20 | And with a short night 's sleep behind him and a miserable hour ahead of him before he could get away to the hospital , the day would be spoiled before it started . |
| 21 | I 'm sure he knew we were trying to get rid of him because he would n't go ! |
| 22 | Paula said the reason she would not go back was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her . |
| 23 | Paula said the reason she would not go back Turn to Page 10 From Page 1 was she was frightened of him because he used to beat her . |
| 24 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 25 | ‘ But Richard said , get hold of him and we 'll persuade him . |
| 26 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 27 | She had made a fool of him and he would n't let that go . |
| 28 | There was many 's a tramp that would have taken the A nine then but this one in particular and he was very very fond of him and he would ask when he was around to that he would get over to see him . |
| 29 | ‘ But we have a number of players already challenging for places ahead of him and he will be given time to acclimatise . ’ |
| 30 | They have a clear view of him and he can hold the important eye contact . |