Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine .
2 Says 'e feels like a young man again . ’
3 I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man .
4 'E looked like an Italian but 'e did n't speak like they do .
5 'E went into the bathroom , and I went .
6 It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’
7 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked .
8 ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained .
9 Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA .
10 This also allowed him to carry off the Irish championship …
11 Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign .
12 There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern .
13 It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings .
14 When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy .
15 Mr Ingram drives a company car , so the banding changes making that more expensive will probably persuade him to go for a smaller model .
16 There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs .
17 Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire .
18 They would n't expect him to go to a Job Centre and sign on .
19 Codron produced it , but even his links with the producer could n't persuade him to go to a play which ‘ sounded irreligious and immoral ’ .
20 A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school .
21 No I do n't want him to go to a school where there 's a lot of bullying .
22 Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing .
23 He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win .
24 It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education .
25 Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it .
26 The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) .
27 Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it .
28 Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police .
29 Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema .
30 I even tried to get him to go to the studio .
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