Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 2 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't let him treat me like that . ’ |
| 4 | We can create conditions for an employer , but we can not make him employ someone under those conditions . |
| 5 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 6 | His expression warned him to leave it at that . |
| 7 | is , well we 've asked him to do something like that , well anyway , Tony Abora is working on the posters and the logo and things like that , all for free . |
| 8 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 9 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 10 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 11 | So on this summer 's evening , to an expectant and full congregation , we hear him saying something like this : |
| 12 | Ask him to demonstrate something to another child ( e.g. how to work the fizzy-drinks machine ) ; direct her to help , or seek help , of another . |
| 13 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 14 | It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you . |
| 15 | Even after the king is killed and Macbeth is named king his ambition will not let him leave it at that . |
| 16 | She had lived to see him prove himself beyond all her expectations . |
| 17 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 18 | She was n't going to let him affect her like this — never again ! she told herself desperately , taking a deep breath as she tried to ignore her racing pulse . |
| 19 | Mad to let him kiss me like this . |
| 20 | It was uncomfortable enough , knowing she would have to face him , but it was worse not to know when , to wonder if she would turn around suddenly and find him watching her with those cold , cold eyes … |
| 21 | I remember him telling me about that , that stone . |
| 22 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 23 | But if Alexei said that he was not involved , then probably he was telling the truth , otherwise there would be no reason for him to say anything at all . |
| 24 | I 've never heard him say anything like that before . ’ |
| 25 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 26 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
| 27 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
| 29 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 30 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |