Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] he and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting blamed the ANC for the violence in Natal , calling on it to abandon the so-called " armed struggle " ; furthermore , it urged the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela " to accept [ Buthelezi 's ] repeated invitation to sit down with him and to talk peace " . |
| 2 | ‘ He liked you to stand up to him and give as good as he got . |
| 3 | After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch . |
| 4 | Somebody used to sit on the carpet at one end of the room with a walking stick and a chalk mark in front of him and the contestants used to have to come up to him and try to rub the marking out and he used to rap the hands with his walking stick . |
| 5 | At such moments the commentating voice differs sufficiently from Nietzsche 's to make the mode of paraphrase unavailable : The intrusive authorial voice here asks the reader to stand back with him and construe Nietzsche for the purposes of his own argument . |
| 6 | When Lewis said to come back with him and eat there Adam had got a kick on the ankle from Anne and another kick when he had n't replied . |
| 7 | If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away . |
| 8 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 9 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll sort it out , ’ he assured her callously as they entered the building , and she suppressed an urge to hit out at him and tell him exactly what he had done and was doing to her . |
| 11 | How happy she would be now , if she could turn her head and see him there , and reach out her arms to hold on to him and pull him close . |
| 12 | The mere thought of it seemed to drag a blanket of depression about her shoulders , causing her to turn away from him and go to the desk . |
| 13 | The fear that it might show on her face caused her to turn away from him and hasten towards the food hampers , and as she did so a shock revelation hit her with full force . |
| 14 | I want you to go there with him and check if Devlin still works there . |
| 15 | I 'm so stupid that I started doing cocaine to try to understand him — to get close to him and understand where he was coming from . |
| 16 | But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet . |
| 17 | There are enough of them to gang up on him and dominate him , even though he remains the group ‘ administrator ’ . |