Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Billy Sullivan ai n't done a day 's work since 'e got out o' the army . |
| 2 | Alton 's back row combined to give club captain Dave Osborne — playing in the centre — a try and then Malcolm Osborne flipped an overhead pass to flanker Alan Purdon for him to go over between the posts . |
| 3 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 4 | A photographer from Spanish Cosmo tries unsuccessfully to get him to go outside for a shoot . |
| 5 | While he was out one day , a phone call was made to his Herne Hill home asking him to go straight to an audition at the Cambridge Theatre , London . |
| 6 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 7 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
| 8 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 9 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 10 | It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield . |
| 11 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 12 | To get him to go out to the Lock with her , Marie had told Simon all sorts of lies . |
| 13 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 14 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 15 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 16 | It appears that Harley has a special mirror enabling him to see clearly into the future . |
| 17 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 18 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 19 | They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side . |
| 20 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 21 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 23 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 24 | She remembered him propped up by the nurses , waving his little hands about . |
| 25 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 26 | Charlotte saw him glance out through the window and clench his teeth before turning back to face Ursula . |
| 27 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 28 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 29 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 30 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |