Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 2 | For years I allowed him to treat me like dirt . |
| 3 | The incident was reported in the press , however , and his secretary was quoted in one newspaper as saying , " Many Jewish people have written to him accusing him of anti-semitism . |
| 4 | He had n't seen her , but the closeness of him moved her to flight . |
| 5 | My comments on his work were valuable only as an irritating pretext which permitted him to lecture me on Art . |
| 6 | Consequently it is necessary for him to provide her with feedback so that she is aware that her opinion is duly considered . |
| 7 | The sight of her legs as they stretched forward to keep up with him lifted him with exultation . |
| 8 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 9 | Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’ |
| 10 | Instead of selling him your goods , you let him have them on consignment . |
| 11 | And if he was engaged on some scheme of his own , she had better leave him to pursue it without interference . |
| 12 | The president thanked him and told him to keep him in touch with any further developments . |
| 13 | His legs were beginning to get twitchy and fidgety , the way they always did when it was particularly important for him to keep them under control . |
| 14 | She claims she has been forced to wait for him to call her from phone boxes . |
| 15 | the Judge , will compel him to learn it by heart . |
| 16 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 17 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 18 | ‘ I wanted him to have it after supper . |
| 19 | It was n't the sort of long-term depression that had settled on him when his wife persuaded him to take her on holiday to Marbella . |
| 20 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 21 | I confided nothing of my circumstances , merely asked Émile how he was and kept him telling me at length , without interrupting him . |
| 22 | Though crippled , he managed to give any woman in his presence the conviction that she was delicate , helpless , and ultra-decorative , and could rely on him to shelter her from life 's cruel blows . |
| 23 | My respects to the captain and ask him to join me for breakfast at , say , eight-thirty . |
| 24 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 25 | As the crew neared the still floating aircraft they spotted the pilot nearby , they approached him to bring him on board but he pulled a pistol out and was about to fire when the coxswain shot him . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm damned if I 'm going to let him bully me with money ! ’ |
| 27 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 28 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 29 | He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser . |
| 30 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |