Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] he [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was me , me that finished him off ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I forced his legs free , wrapped him round me and dragged him out through the flames . |
| 3 | The wife must have guessed it was you and tipped him off . |
| 4 | You have to remember only that from each such encounter he must , to make the story one of continuing progress and placate Thomas Ozro MacAdoo , take some new fact , something that leads him on , in most cases , to another confrontation — and take us , the readers , with him . |
| 5 | He drew back his leg as if to kick her , but she quickly turned and pulled the other one and brought him down . |
| 6 | His role at the head of the military administration was a creative one and satisfied him up to a point . |
| 7 | Overbalancing , she clutched at Finn to save herself but pulled him over with her . |
| 8 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 9 | Would release embarrass him or cut him off from that obscure membership of the masculine club ? |
| 10 | I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang . |
| 11 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 12 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 13 | for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was |
| 14 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 15 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 16 | Find him and bring him back . ’ |
| 17 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 18 | ‘ They fetch him and bring him back . ’ |
| 19 | With a sigh , she lifted her arms to reach him and pull him down to her , and the sheet , like her resolve , slipped away . |
| 20 | Gabriel watched him go , and prayed for the grass to roll over him and swallow him up , like the Red Sea engulfing the Egyptian charioteers as they chased the Children of Israel . |
| 21 | We , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , from our young days brought up with him , awakened by a man standing on his saddle , are summoned , and arrive , and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures , such s a play , which unfortunately , as it turns out , is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation — which , among other causes , results in , among other effects , a high , not to say , homicidal , excitement in Hamlet , whom we , in consequence , are escorting , for his own good , to England . |
| 22 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 23 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 24 | He was pursued by the customer who had been threatened , who caught up with him and knocked him off his motorcycle ; the offender then threatened him with the gun . |
| 25 | Vee was one of the acts who took Holly 's place at a concert on the night he was killed , and a pop manager spotted him and signed him up . |
| 26 | Burton was so elated at his tough bargaining that he took a rare taxi back to Pelham Crescent , where he met his neighbour , Emlyn Williams , who winkled the details out of him and sent him back for £30 . |
| 27 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 28 | And as Roberts leaned in a window , police grabbed him and bundled him in . |
| 29 | When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out . |
| 30 | GUIL grabs him and spins him back violently . |