Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He plays them like game fish . |
| 2 | Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana . |
| 3 | Needs the cross now and he supplies it towards Collimore touched away and a shot by Phillips took a deflection off Lewis for a corner . |
| 4 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 5 | And he disciplines her in front of the he 'll discipline them |
| 6 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 7 | Here , his unequivocal response to Mrs Hollar 's pleas — " Mrs Hollar , I will do everything I can for him " ( p. 82 ) — is made more emphatic by the fact that he interrupts her in order to say it , and its effect is to affirm his commitment to help at the expense of any considerations for his negative face , a change in priorities which is central to the development in Anderson 's character . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it 's not that … he owes me at poker . ’ |
| 9 | Like Samuel Pepys before him , he writes it in code . |
| 10 | Such incidents might have caused Sir Bernard to have second thoughts about the system ; but he defends it with passion . |
| 11 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 12 | ‘ But he has you for company , ’ began Ruth . |
| 13 | I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory . |
| 14 | I 'm going to write this letter over the next few days , and give it to , of the British Embassy , when he visits us on Wednesday . |
| 15 | By the time he drops us in Earls Court , the back of his cab smells like we dropped a bottle of brandy . |
| 16 | he finishes them on Monday and if he 's no better by then , cos nobody |
| 17 | ‘ He wants me to machine-gun the observers this time . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He wants you for Gareth , I think . ’ |
| 20 | He meets me at Heathrow . |
| 21 | Coming towards his house and he describes it in stages , bringing it to life all the time . |
| 22 | He strokes it with care , removing a little fleck of dust from the scratchplate and leaves me with one of those great Suede quotes . |
| 23 | I catch his head on the tilt , and he rights it without shame , showing only a flicker of annoyance at not catching a snippet of a sight . |
| 24 | His designs borrow freely from both ancient Egypt and modern architecture 's greatest hits — Beaubourg , the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie , the Louvre Pyramid ; he reapplies them to office blocks and shopping centres in Peckham with unabashed irrelevance . |
| 25 | Although if you if you say anything to him in Gaelic , he answers you in English I notice . |
| 26 | Moreover , in showing us what he loves about Tbe Faerie Queene , he shows us in embryo what he hardly knows at this point himself : the sort of books which he himself will excel at . |
| 27 | Believing that ‘ no book is worthless , somebody in the world wants it , ’ he buys them in bulk , pricing them modestly , and making Hay a mecca for both casual browsers and collectors of rarities . |
| 28 | He greets them in role and apologises for breaking into their busy professional schedules . |
| 29 | And he grows them in wind tunnels . |
| 30 | He introduces me to Watkins , the man who predicted Labour would get 330 seats . |