Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 2 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |
| 3 | ‘ 'E went into the bathroom , and I went . |
| 4 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 5 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |
| 6 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 7 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 8 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 9 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 10 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 11 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 12 | Codron produced it , but even his links with the producer could n't persuade him to go to a play which ‘ sounded irreligious and immoral ’ . |
| 13 | No I do n't want him to go to a school where there 's a lot of bullying . |
| 14 | They would n't expect him to go to a Job Centre and sign on . |
| 15 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 16 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 17 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 18 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 19 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 20 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 21 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 22 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 23 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 24 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 25 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 26 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 27 | He had been too rushed and busy in Rome to enjoy his stay there , although it seems that the American writer , Frederic Prokosch , persuaded him to go on a pilgrimage one afternoon to find the legendary " Golden Bough " on the shores of Lake Nemi ; what they found was an old and dilapidated oak . |
| 28 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 29 | The mother motioned him to go with a shake of her head . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't want him to go into the theatre with you ? |