Example sentences of "he [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh — you told him that ! ’ chorused Ethel and Mary . |
| 2 | And Paul himself and Maggie and Fenna , but she would not try to tell him that . |
| 3 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
| 4 | I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but do n't tell him that — not for the moment , anyway . ’ |
| 6 | It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks . |
| 7 | So he brought his tapes with him that night and he loved it . |
| 8 | To this day the world sees him that way . |
| 9 | Edward was eager to see and to understand the precise nature and functioning of female anatomy and physiology ; Helen , with equal insistence on their purity of motive and the intense trust in him that love had given her , was surprised by joy , sustained by daydreams of their future Eden together , and fired by his frank letters with their confessions of his adolescent fight against erections , nocturnal emissions , and occasional masturbation . |
| 10 | We are already familiar with Hobbes 's fascination with motion , and how it seemed obvious to him that motion was the one basic cause . |
| 11 | Fancy her thinking that getting him that lamp would make him feel any different about moving . |
| 12 | ‘ Got him that time , ’ said Mrs Wright . |
| 13 | Mark could hardly believe his ears when , two days before the EPC meeting , Muldoon told him that Nate wanted him to fly out to Istanbul right away . |
| 14 | He felt sure Viola would n't begrudge him that . |
| 15 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |
| 16 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 17 | We do n't call him that , at least never to his face . |
| 18 | On the other side of the argument it is inconceivable that the ancestor of the people of God , and through him that nation itself , should receive their name from a local demon of an insignificant wadi . |
| 19 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 20 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 21 | I looked for bubbles rising , hoping to find him that way , and saw not bubbles but a red stain in the water a short way off , a swirl of colour against drab . |
| 22 | I would cheat him that way . |
| 23 | I taught him that too . |
| 24 | Would you please tell him that ? |
| 25 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 26 | His funeral , according to Calamy , ‘ was attended by a most numerous company of all ranks and qualities , and especially of ministers , some of whom were Conformists , who thought fit to pay him that last office of respect . ’ |
| 27 | His appointment to the desperate Eighth Army , however , gave him that opportunity , particularly as , by then , the Americans were beginning to make available much larger supplies of tanks and equipment so vitally necessary . |
| 28 | In the presence of a lovely woman he was carried away and , ignoring her husband completely , presented Lunia with the finished sketch and invited her to go out with him that evening . |
| 29 | ‘ Can you tell him that ? |
| 30 | He took it home with him that night and sat reading the words . |