Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 2 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 3 | he has he the same problems that we 've all had you know erm and yes he 's , he 's , he 's very easy to listen to despite the fact that he 's a southerner . |
| 4 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 5 | He spares us the details , saying only that she was tall , well-built . |
| 6 | He passes her the joint . |
| 7 | Johnson claimed that whenever Montesquieu ‘ wants to support a strange opinion , he quotes you the practice of Japan or of some other distant country , of which he knows nothing ’ . |
| 8 | He shows me the calluses on his palms . |
| 9 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 10 | He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other … |
| 11 | When he hands me the keys , |
| 12 | He hands me the manuscript , about fifteen pages . |
| 13 | He hands me the phone . |
| 14 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 15 | He hands me the receiver . |
| 16 | He regrets it the moment he says it . |
| 17 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 18 | so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that . |
| 19 | He flings us the fare , with a slender tip , and brandishes an overnight bag . |
| 20 | He calls me the ‘ worried goldfish ’ . ’ |
| 21 | y y i it can happen and apparently sometimes does that the young man will receive a recycled wife who is in fact the mother of a daughter who has married his father and so he calls her the daughter-mother , her actual mother is his wife . |
| 22 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 23 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 24 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 25 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 26 | He calls it the ‘ varsity spirit . |
| 27 | He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett . |
| 28 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 29 | But he accords them the right to boast , for they have returned with money and presents which are proof of their achievement . |
| 30 | And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story . |