Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He changes slowly from messing Lennie around and playing stupid jokes on him , to treating Lennie as a friend , a companion , but someone he must protect from his own strength and stupidity .
2 They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest .
3 Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand .
4 Here too he started to write hymns which he would sing to his own accompaniment on a lute .
5 Opposing traits in his make-up were already evident during his last year at school , when he was voted both class optimist and class pessimist , though , at that time , he had yet to appreciate certain complexities of character on which he would draw for his screen creations .
6 He had a long stick which he would place under their legs when doing the high kick to indicate where it should reach .
7 Despite its eulogistic tone Oldershaw 's memory seems more credible than E. C. Bentley 's half-humorous , half-invented sketch of Thomas aged sixteen during his first half-year at St. Paul 's : ‘ It was Walker [ Frederick Walker , the High Master ] too , who had made this possible by clearing the ‘ History Eighth ’ , the first recruits to which included my friend Oldershaw and myself , soon to be joined by an exceptionally reserved and quiet boy who usually had in his pocket a rat or so , and a few snakes , which he would shut in his desk with books , and occasionally peep at stealthily — Edward Thomas the poet . ’
8 He was a large red-faced gentleman who always carried a whip which he would use on anyone trespassing on his property .
9 ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms .
10 As part of Project Interlock , Doak began publishing newsletters , in which he would write of his own experiences and invite others with similar interests to record theirs .
11 He also held public meetings to discuss the concept of past-life regression , at which he would play to anyone who cared to listen the taped recordings of his experimental sessions .
12 Forever talking about an important matter which he would discuss on his next leave .
13 It adds that a tender and documents given by LCH to a buying member are deemed to comply with the contract terms unless the buyer notifies LCH to the contrary by 10 am the next day , in default of which he must pay for them .
14 The Ibrox side are resigned to being without the Englishman for the European Cup showdown with Marseille on 7 April because of the automatic one-match ban which he must serve after his sending off against Brugge on Wednesday night .
15 Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . "
16 and invite the hearer to an exchange of views in which he will agree with him or otherwise in belief or attitude .
17 ‘ Fear not , ’ he says , ‘ stand firm , and see the salvation of the Lord , which he will work for you today . ’
18 ( Lk 19.9. 15:1–32 Our response is one of trust in which the exodus provides a pattern : ‘ And Moses said to the people , ‘ Fear not , stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord which He will work for you today …
19 There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it .
20 We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind .
21 In one case Valens discusses a trust worded ‘ Let Stichus be free : and I request that my heir teach him a skill by which he can look after himself ; in another Ulpian deals with a bequest of an annual sum in which the amount has been left out .
22 Karl Leyser has shown that this was a ‘ patrimonially ’ , not a ‘ bureaucratically ’ , governed society ; rule was by the personal presence of an itinerant ruler , the exercise of his patronage , the close bonds which he could establish with his followers , and the ceremonial projection of his sacrality .
23 Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight .
24 When it comes to who he can bring with him , Arsenio Hall is no Soul II Soul ; he 's up there with Farrah and Luther and yuppie power-brokers , not with the guys from the old neighbourhood .
25 ‘ If your father could see you he would turn in his gravy ! ’
26 I told you he 'd come after us .
27 Now he 's in the limelight and we 'll have everything he can throw at us — hardly a recipe fro the group 's long standing .
28 She said something to him that night … something he would remember to his dying day .
29 This was not something he could explain to anyone else , not even his parents .
30 Equally he knows that it is something he will ignore at his peril .
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