Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [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 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 5 | His expression warned him to leave it at that . |
| 6 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 7 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even after the king is killed and Macbeth is named king his ambition will not let him leave it at that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mad to let him kiss me like this . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | I remember him telling me about that , that stone . |
| 17 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
| 20 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 24 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 25 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 26 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 27 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 28 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 29 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 30 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |