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

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1 ‘ If 'e puts another farm above this , then 'e 's better away . ’
2 ‘ Anyway , what 'appened was , 'e puts this record on the fing an' winds up the 'andle , an' guess what ? ’
3 All around him rode many squadrons of Rajput cavalry whose armour glittered from afar .
4 Let him rule this country for you . ’
5 I do n't want him to lose all sense of proportion ; we must make a five .
6 It hurt him to see such changes in her .
7 I did n't want him to breathe that stuff into his lungs , ’ he says .
8 ‘ He 's played extensively in the Football League and I ca n't see him encountering any difficulty with the game over here . ’
9 If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years .
10 A particular provision in this respect ( Clause 10.08 ) should be included in the agreement to cover the case of a partner being appointed without the benefit of a charging clause where it is necessary to exclude him from participating in fees earned on behalf of the firm for work done in the estate or trust concerned : for him to accept any benefit through the firm 's involvement would be incompatible with his position as executor or trustee .
11 But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money .
12 It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution .
13 Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership .
14 She could make him doubt most things about himself , but not the accuracy of his ears .
15 Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife .
16 Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did .
17 Craig Chalmers , who was a casualty in Melrose 's game against Boroughmuir on Saturday , has not decided yet whether his leg injury will permit him to play this weekend against Stirling County .
18 Lead/bass guitarist Jean-Herve Peron unstraps his double-necked guitar monster ( an apparatus that allows him to play both styles with minimum effort ) and holds up his hands in joy .
19 The problem is , however , that his Marxist conceptual framework leaves him describing this sphere as ‘ ideology ’ or ‘ hegemony ’ .
20 Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’
21 He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours .
22 She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance .
23 Refusing to let him see any trace of fear in her eyes , she squared up to him , pride stiffening her spine .
24 She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant .
25 His entire book is devoted to ways of improving the proportion of the ink that is devoted to conveying aspects of the data , and of erasing chartjunk ; this leads him to suggest some simplification of boxplots , for example .
26 Neumann 's hanging on to a limited and personalized notion of what constitutes an Allegretto leads him to assume many things for which there is little foundation .
27 They regularly employed Philip Leapor as a gardener , and the letters sent to him give some insight into his business .
28 There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned .
29 When a judge , particularly one with Lord Scarman 's breadth of mind , is appointed to inquire into an outbreak of violence and serious disorders on the streets of Brixton and the policing of the area , it is unrealistic to expect him to avoid any recommendations of a political nature as to the causes .
30 Seeing him wreak such havoc among a supposedly invincible foe , the Elves within the shrine were heartened .
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