Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a week , Loppe handed the task back to Galiot , mentioning that business required him in Kouklia . |
| 32 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 33 | That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world . |
| 34 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 35 | They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence . |
| 36 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 37 | In some cases , a Zuwayi who had unwittingly offended someone would constrain that person to forgive him by offering compensation and sacrificing animals to him . |
| 38 | Detectives have spent all day questioning him about Tania Probyn 's disappearance and subsequent death . |
| 39 | Guide us oh God with your love as we await the coming of your son and give us all grace to welcome him into our hearts as his mother welcomed him in Bethlehem , and we ask her help as we pray . |
| 40 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 41 | That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively . |
| 42 | That victory put him within reach of the top ten . |
| 43 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 44 | She had always been suspicious of Taczek , and here was yet more evidence implicating him with people she no longer trusted . |
| 45 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 46 | Yet Binyon knew the unformulated rules of the society that he moved in , and played the game consistently as the amateur that that society required him to be . |
| 47 | Although he could buy his dwelling-place whether his former owner wanted him to or not , he could acquire farmland only if the owner chose to sell it . |
| 48 | That effort marked him as a classic possible and his work on the gallops leaves no doubt in my mind that he has trained on and can dispose of Azhar on his way to better things . |
| 49 | any money to take him to a tribunal . |
| 50 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 51 | ‘ Marriage can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination . |
| 52 | Tom Jones held his young hurdler Jackson Flint in enough esteem to enter him in a race at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival meeting even though he does not yet have a win to his credit . |
| 53 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 54 | I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby . |
| 55 | In his speeches to the multitudes , Franco 's enthusiasm for the Falange put monarchists and military on notice that any attempt to push him into early retirement would have to contend with the mass opposition of his " popular support " . |
| 56 | Nothing seemed to exist outside that swaying chair and Simon , whose terrifying ability to repress his own humanity made him into an enemy that Gazzer did n't know how to defeat . |
| 57 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |
| 58 | They do n't have any evidence linking him to the murder but you can be sure they 'll be watching his every move . |
| 59 | ‘ We 've enough evidence to convict him of the Englishman 's murder , anyway , ’ the marshal pointed out . |
| 60 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |