Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] he of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 2 | He had told Fahfakhs that Tepilit had actually killed a lion for the film that Claudia was making with Leavitt , whose name I had reminded him of . |
| 3 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 4 | She 'd accused him of always looking at other women : looking , looking , as though for the next conquest . |
| 5 | Merrill recalled Luke 's baffled expression when she 'd accused him of being involved with Elise , and felt her body grow hot with shame . |
| 6 | On impulse , she decided to tell him of her discoveries at the belvedere and the conclusions she had drawn from them . |
| 7 | She ached to remind him of all the wasted evenings with prospective investors : the long , boring meals with pompous bankers and their dull , provincial wives . |
| 8 | She had deprived him of his pleasure with the wayward Meik . |
| 9 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 10 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 11 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 12 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 13 | She had accused him of leading her on . |
| 14 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 15 | Maybe she had accused him of doing appalling things with Badger . |
| 16 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
| 17 | as if they 'd robbed him of something . |
| 18 | The one beside him had accused him of ‘ grassing ’ and told him if he did not admit it he would have his face ripped open . |
| 19 | It was the memory of what they had told him of Callanish , and of the eagles that came from there . |
| 20 | What an irony — the republican ideas they had accused him of propagating were exactly what he had left unsaid , and should have said . |
| 21 | It seemed to remind him of something . |
| 22 | MR TREVOR Clay , retired general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing , was yesterday awarded £8,000 High Court libel damages over a Daily Mirror story , which he claimed accused him of working ‘ with an eye on getting a plum job with the Government ’ . |
| 23 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 24 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 25 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |