Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , out o' the blue , 'e asked me if I knew the Tunnel Mob . |
| 2 | Like I said , 'e told me an' Tony McCarthy that there 's no end o' silk on the ground floor an' upstairs there 's cases o' real ivory ornaments . |
| 3 | Dad 'eard 'er an' 'e told 'er that while 'e 'ad two 'ands she was not to borrow money off 'er . |
| 4 | What 's more , 'e told 'er if she did n't stop 'er silly carryin 's on , 'e was gon na leave 'er . ’ |
| 5 | Every time he looked her way , that frightening compulsion went sweeping through her , the urge to let him look , let him absorb her until nothing was left and she no longer existed as a separate , individual entity . |
| 6 | ‘ He is good at his job and I do n't want him to lose it because of something stupid like this . ’ |
| 7 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 8 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 9 | She did n't want him to see it until she 'd had time to think . |
| 10 | We learned later that he was paid an honorarium by the government in far-off Santiago , so that he was also in a sense their man in Punta Arenas , and it was , therefore , quite natural for him to cultivate us and be as helpful as possible . |
| 11 | He said she had become like a stone and tempted him to treat her as one and hurl her away . |
| 12 | Fernando Serra had instructed him to instruct her when she arrived that there was no room at the inn ! |
| 13 | The idea burst into her mind , a sudden radiant solution , that she could rush along to the pet shop at lunchtime and apologize , ask him to forgive her and make everything all right . |
| 14 | I learned that he was going to London early on the following day , so I asked him to meet me before he went . |
| 15 | I asked him to meet me when I found out proof that he — ’ |
| 16 | Then two others beside him prodded him and rolled his head back . |
| 17 | Everyone who has worked with him describes it as ‘ an unforgettable experience ’ , and there is usually a Beecham story . |
| 18 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll persuade him to sell it and return to Hastings , where he 'll take up his old life as an accountant . ’ |
| 20 | And this is it , this was Ruth 's experience , and it can be yours and mine , as we allow him to lead us and to direct us as we come , become part of his harvest . |
| 21 | Too late to stop now ; better him meeting them than Claire , he thought , and drew courage . |
| 22 | How her heart ached to see him now ; to have him hold her and comfort her . |
| 23 | It was nerve-racking , having him watch her as she slid her feet out of bed , and pushed them into soft mules . |
| 24 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 25 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 26 | Let him believe it if it helped . |
| 27 | Phillis said , ‘ She would n't have let him touch me if she was here . ’ |
| 28 | She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass . |
| 29 | ‘ I wanted him to do it after she died . |
| 30 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |