Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] he [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |
| 2 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 3 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 4 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 5 | These attitudes transposed easily to the Commonwealth point of view , class warfare and nationalist agitation both arousing in him the same confidently emollient response . |
| 6 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 7 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 10 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 11 | I 'll go with him a little way and perhaps we can talk . |
| 12 | His eldest surviving son , Coleridge 's father , was born in 1719 and attended the Grammar School at Crediton ; but when bankruptcy brought the family low , the younger John , not quite sixteen years of age , ‘ walked off to seek his fortune ’ , taking with him no more than his father 's blessing and half a crown . |
| 13 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 14 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 15 | The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements . |
| 16 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 17 | If that is the case , I 'll talk to him the same way . |
| 18 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |