Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 2 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 3 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 4 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 5 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 6 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 7 | He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . |
| 8 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 9 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 10 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
| 11 | I 'll go and phone him , put ten P in the phone and he rings me at the phone box . |
| 12 | I do n't mind how many times he rings you at the phone box . |
| 13 | He holds me like the devil himself . |
| 14 | He holds you by the voice of his demands , |
| 15 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 16 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 17 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 19 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 20 | Why do I need him to stay here when he weakens me in the way an earthquake undermines a city ? |
| 21 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 22 | He thanks you for the toy soldiers you left behind for him but wishes The General was here to organise them in fighting order . |
| 23 | He scrapes it round the edge of the light metal ashtray until the tip of the fag is a perfect cone , then smokes it carefully . |
| 24 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 25 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 26 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 27 | anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright . |
| 28 | I do n't know why he 's suddenly decided he wants me off the team … ’ |
| 29 | But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him . |
| 30 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |