Example sentences of "he [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 31 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 32 | Minutes later he was loving her completely , his thrusts deep inside her , his penetration so absolute , so wonderfully possessive that she closed around him instinctively , holding him where he belonged , within her for evermore . |
| 33 | We get the odd mis-routing , there was a chap recently , er , should , you know , where , the truth is , he was a technical sinner , not a real baddie , so I decided to stretch a point , and send him back down again to try and teach him where he went wrong . |
| 34 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 35 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 36 | In 1946 , a ‘ religious friend ’ told him that he , Levi , belonged to an elect : ‘ I , the non-believer , and even less of a believer after the season of Auschwitz , was a person touched by Grace , a saved man . ’ |
| 37 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 38 | Stavrogin , needling away , elicits from him that he believes in Russia and the Orthodox Church and the body of Christ . |
| 39 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 40 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 41 | Now fully recovered from a hairline crack of the shin , Robson spoke to the England manager , Bobby Robson , this morning to tell him that he had suffered no reaction from the Portsmouth game and was fit and well for the Polish trip . |
| 42 | He is finally rejected by the devious , arrogant Keith , who informs him that he is ‘ obsolete ’ because he does not ‘ know how to make things happen ’ . |
| 43 | Jones , a fellow-Irishman who had a 75 , told him that he was not lining up his putter squarely . |
| 44 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |
| 45 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 46 | Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 47 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 48 | She told him that he would cover himself with ridicule by bringing the boy back . |
| 49 | So I had to go and put Nick straight , tell him that he was n't even one of the band , just a mate who 'd come and play with us every now and then . |
| 50 | Roosevelt sent a note to Ambassador Winant two days later saying : ‘ please take the following message personally to Winston and convince him that he has got to come through . |
| 51 | Be firm , and tell him that he must either pull his weight or leave . |
| 52 | The NCOs take no action — Wall graffiti is an acceptable activity in Berlin — other than to warn him that he runs the risk of being arrested by the East Germans again . |
| 53 | In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain . |
| 54 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 55 | Something in the loneliness and fear he had experienced during his ordeal told him that he did . |
| 56 | It seemed to him that he had intercepted some secret communication between them . |
| 57 | Having met a cat , a teddy , a hen and an uncle , he finally finds a Mummy without a child and they all live hapily together until the uncle reminds him that he has no Daddy … |
| 58 | I told him that he should n't use make-up , but he said , ‘ You do , Mummy ’ . |
| 59 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 60 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |