Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks it 's because of the sausages that people do n't like him enough to ask him to tea ; but it is n't really . |
| 2 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 3 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 5 | He gambled and drank , and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages … . |
| 6 | Pickerage said Frome was going to teach him to play squash , and then take him home to introduce him to his parents . |
| 7 | The sight of him also had her in stitches . |
| 8 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 9 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 10 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 11 | David McPherson had deceived John O'Donnell , 25 , into going to Argyll with him then delivered him into the hands of several other men . |
| 12 | Then the Burewala Bombshell started to work Smith over , kicking a bouncer high over him then hitting him in the box , before having him caught for a duck , pushing to midwicket as he swung his body behind a fixed forward prod : 27 for 2 . |
| 13 | He keeps his liquor just on the other side of the room , but catch him actually dishing it out himself . |
| 14 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 15 | When he slowly drew her to him she made no attempt to struggle , held by the soft beauty of that one word and the warm security of his hands at her waist . |
| 16 | He slowly drew her to him , and their lips met . |
| 17 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 18 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 19 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 20 | The latter 's favourite hunting box was Knepp Castle near West Grinstead ; so fond of it was he that he eventually seized it from William de Braose , an action hardly guaranteed to increase baronial support ; when the French invaded England in 1216 to support the barons against John , it was Sussex which bore the brunt . |
| 21 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 22 | He eventually established himself as a regular first team player for the Parkhead club before he was transferred to Manchester United in 1973 . |
| 23 | So after one or two other visits to The Bun Shop or Joe Mullins ' Volunteer in Cambridge on nights off , he eventually presented me with a log book detailing some 280/290 hours of flying , which was about the average of the normal straight-through pilot that came from the training machine aid could then enter all Operational Training Unit . |
| 24 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 25 | He successfully ran it as what he wished it to remain , the last of the medieval halls ; he never wanted it to have full collegiate status . |
| 26 | Yet he badly wanted her to . |
| 27 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |
| 28 | After the surgery , told to lose 50 pounds , he duly transformed himself into a jogging optimist . |
| 29 | Although Bush signed this measure on Aug. 18 , he effectively nullified it by refusing to declare the budget emergency required to permit additional spending . |
| 30 | Industrial relations , as the subject today would be described , was an area in which he instinctively felt himself at home . |