Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 2 | I saw him flush it down the toilet so that no-one will laugh at his spotty chest in the showers ! |
| 3 | The sculptor is encouraged to deepen the relief to make the figures stand out better ; and this in turn , making them more like statues , encourages him to treat them in the convention of free sculpture rather than that of drawing . |
| 4 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 5 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 6 | Then they formed up around him to escort him from the arena . |
| 7 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 8 | ‘ But why did you ask him to meet you in the garden instead of in the house ? ’ |
| 9 | Would n't like him to catch me under the kissing bough . ’ |
| 10 | Examine a scene from the play where one boy creeps up on another and then springs on him stabbing him in the back with his knife . |
| 11 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 12 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 13 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 14 | Rachel allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor , but his callous dismissal of the unfortunate Domino was symptomatic of the kind of man he was . |
| 15 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 16 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 17 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 18 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 19 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 20 | She allowed him to corner her in the pantry . |
| 21 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 22 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |
| 23 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 24 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 25 | When Nigel was at home , Gina usually made him take them to the Launderette in a black dust bag . |
| 26 | She would n't let him take her to the Aber House Hotel . |
| 27 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 28 | Give Durkin all the facts and let him publish them in the Eye-Witness . ’ |
| 29 | So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) . |
| 30 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |