Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 3 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 4 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 5 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 6 | I was like a Desperate Dan cartoon where you see him with his hair standing on end . |
| 7 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 8 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 9 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 10 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 11 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 12 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 13 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 14 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 15 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 16 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 17 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 18 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 19 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 20 | Not quite able to turn this down , he insists instead that I telephone him on Saturday morning to confirm . |
| 21 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 22 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 23 | They know that I killed him on purpose because he took my best animal . ’ |
| 24 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 25 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 26 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 27 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
| 28 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 29 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 30 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |