Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E said 'e wants loads o' babies . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 3 | After years of thinking of Bailey in terms of neutral tones , within the technical restrictions of black and white , it is a shock to see him using slashes of colour : yellow , red , blue , green . |
| 4 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 5 | His research into the possible use of guerrillas led him to champion preparations for all types of irregular operations , although he could make little headway against the traditional thinking of those directing military operations . |
| 6 | HERBERT Blaize , a courtly politician of a bygone Caribbean era , believed God had chosen him to restore democracy to Grenada after 7,000 US troops invaded his island in 1983 to overthrow its marxist rulers . |
| 7 | He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time . |
| 8 | Men like him became lynchpins in Sussex rural society , serving not only as tenant farmers but also as parish churchwardens and constables , helping to maintain a semblance of order and to interpret the gentry 's will in their communities . |
| 9 | He wanted an open relationship after a while which meant him bringing bits of trade back and then saying could n't we be just sisters ? |
| 10 | It was typical of him to see politics in ethical terms . |
| 11 | He challenged him to see God through his telescope . |
| 12 | Any threat to press freedom came , not from Goldsmith , but from the law which allowed him to sue distributors of libel-prone magazines . |
| 13 | Socrates had a contempt for tragedy ; yet we hear anecdotes about him helping Euripides with his plays and only watching tragedy at the theatre if there was a new play by Euripides on . |
| 14 | It was probably because she was always so reluctant to let him make love to her , she decided . |
| 15 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 16 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 17 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 18 | For a while she even forgot why she was letting him make love to her in her surprise at the pleasure of it . |
| 19 | Not bad for a boy whose first two Tests , against India the winter before last , ended with him nursing figures of one for 228 . |
| 20 | Sudden changes of mood left him rattling sarcasms like a snake , and he fell easily into disputes with others , including the Moynihans and Muriel Belcher . |
| 21 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 22 | My aunt and my mother were particularly fond of him , and when he had a stomach upset they fussed over him all the time , preparing special bland food for him , making him swallow Milk of Magnesia and advising him not to drink too much Christmas sherry . |
| 23 | " To him " , preached Peter , " all the prophets bear witness , that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name . " |
| 24 | This led him to accept work in productions that really were n't up to his standard and the increased bookings resulted in a massive turnover of dancers . |
| 25 | This means that one should never put one 's Japanese counterpart in a position that will force him to accept blame for a project going wrong , being delayed , etc . |
| 26 | Mr Denktash refrained from personal criticism of Mr Clerides , an old political sparring partner and urged him to accept face to face talks . |
| 27 | There was still enough ill-temper left in him to startle Vulcan into a gallop when two spurs were simultaneously jabbed into his body as they entered the straight stretch of forest track . |
| 28 | Hoped I would do nothing to compel him to shake hands with the murderers of his relatives . |
| 29 | Then , the emptiness of his purse and the bareness of his kitchen had forced him to find work of any kind . |
| 30 | His behaviour , the things he 'd said , trying with her new knowledge of him to find flaws in his reasoning , and then wondered drearily why she bothered . |