Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way the funding mechanism works on the teaching side means that each student arriving in an institution brings with him or her less money than before . |
| 2 | The Asian client 's basic pension does not take him or her above income support levels . |
| 3 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 4 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a friend 's house , really , ’ said Sam , rather wishing to tell him that her own house was even nicer . |
| 6 | It astonished him that her outward appearance had changed so little . |
| 7 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 8 | As he pulled the car off the highway into the gas station forecourt , it occurred to him that his only chance now would be if the pump attendant noticed something amiss and called the police after they 'd gone . |
| 9 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 10 | Some of the most eminent surgeons in London had assured him that his playing days were over . |
| 11 | I doubt if it ever dawned on him that his patient wife would tell him to get stuffed . |
| 12 | Jacob was no longer a trickster in the Joseph story , but himself the victim of the duplicity of his sons who convinced him that his favourite Joseph was dead . |
| 13 | When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " . |
| 14 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 15 | We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum . |
| 16 | It was altogether typical of him that his unshakeable beliefs should prevent him continuing to serve in the Government once the Anglo-Irish agreement was signed . |
| 17 | I would have to seek Neil out and tell him that his old acquaintance was now , if not necessarily dangerous , at the least some kind of villain , who needed careful watching . |
| 18 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 19 | This heavy fine so impoverished him that his northern castles fell into decay , and in 1574 the decay was such that all buildings of the castle were demolished and valuable materials removed and used for the repair of Wressil Castle . |
| 20 | It was as if he had never raised the possibility that she might become so much more to him than his personal assistant . |
| 21 | Got on better with him than my own parents , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 22 | A person whose identity was not known to him and whose very existence remained to be proved ? |
| 23 | Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 25 | Him and his verbal warnings ! |
| 26 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 27 | Suddenly you could n't get away from him and his blooming career . |
| 28 | Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself . |
| 29 | Only the waiter arriving with their main course stopped her telling Nathan Bryce exactly what she thought of him and his female acquaintances . |
| 30 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |