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Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] he [prep] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too .
2	She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek .
3	These deliberate modernities should clear him of any charge of merely insulated ‘ ivory tower ’ escapism .
4	‘ I 'm in two minds whether we should have him at all .
5	He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point .
6	We must tell him about this one .
7	On the home front his business experiences should stand him in more than good stead : cobblers is the stock-in-trade of most cricket committees .
8	On the home front his business experiences should stand him in more than good stead : cobblers is the stock-in-trade of most cricket committees .
9	I must get him alongside this time , he thought .
10	So you must help him with these definitions .
11	‘ We 'll send him for another x-ray when he 's completed his course of strep . ’
12	‘ You wait , I 'll sort him out for you , I 'll tear him in half ! ’
13	I 'll keep him on that stuff
14	They 'll move him to some safe house just as they did with Hess . ’
15	‘ In my opinion , they 'll move him to some sort of safe house .
16	I 'll tell him about that later .
17	I 'll get him for both of us . ’
18	Potentially , the bastard I 'll get him for this , could be a confession .
19	The defendant may apply for directions as to whether any third person with a competing claim should be joined and if that third person fails to appear on such a successful application the court may deprive him of any right of action against the defendant .
20	I 'd sack him for that .
21	I 'd sack him for that .
22	He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism .
23	‘ What are your plans for the rest of the afternoon ? ’ she asked in her best trying-to-be-friendly voice , thinking that if she could pin-point him to some specific part of the house then she could at least do her best to avoid it .
24	She could hate him for those , and lose any incomprehensible hurt they occasioned in the heat of that hatred .
25	‘ My prevailing power with Harry seems to be rather limited , but perhaps you could try him with some straight questions . ’
26	yeah , I 'm going to go back into my bedroom and Neil can still use the ensuite shower cos he 's got the tip of the idea that he 's got to come in clothed and knock on the door cos last time I was in my bedroom he asked if he could use the shower , situation he 'd you know , and I 'd let him after all , it 's not as though my be , there 's a door between my bedroom and the
27	He might work off his lust on her body and she could despise him for that .
28	He blinked , as if she 'd hit him from some unexpected direction .
29	Seb spent many of the long winter evenings at the Hankses ' cottage and his reading and writing improved so much that Carrie was reluctantly forced to admit there was little more she could teach him in these two spheres of learning .
30	Taken together with the author 's Building & Civil Engineering Standard Forms ( 1969 with 1970 and 1973 Supplements ) and the tenth edition of Hudson 's Building and Engineering Contracts ( 1970 ) which is edited by the author , this book gives the practitioner sound and practical assistance on virtually any problem which may confront him in this difficult and increasingly important area of law .