Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 2 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 3 | Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield said Mr Owens may have been startled by a car swerving to avoid him and had stepped into the path of the van . |
| 4 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 5 | ‘ Wo n't Mr Gajdusek be annoyed that it 's not a professional journalist coming to interview him ? ’ |
| 6 | As it turned out , his skills on the job have led to the department trying to regrade him into a more demanding post . |
| 7 | One officer said that my youngest sister , who eventually grew to be just 5 feet 4 inches tall but who was still at school at this time , had her arm around his neck trying to strangle him . |
| 8 | After 1962 , when Macmillan persuaded President Kennedy at the Nassau meeting to let him have Polaris , the British space effort lost the committed patronage of the Ministry of Defence . |
| 9 | The board wanting to sell him ( or someone ) . |
| 10 | They all turned out to watch him go , Pen clamouring to accompany him so that he might be the first to embrace and welcome Lily 's baby . |
| 11 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 12 | A few moments later , squeals of laughter and delight heralded the arrival of Cissie and Richard ; the kitchen door burst open and they tumbled in one behind the other , the boy first , and the girl pretending to chase him , her hands making pointed ear shapes behind her head , and her small pretty features twisted into a fearsome expression . |
| 13 | There was , said Nikos , a deputation waiting to see him . |
| 14 | Four minutes sitting in the big lobby and hearing the splatter of the ornamental pool and waterfall , and the lady coming to meet him . |
| 15 | In view of what he has said , I deeply regret having called him , I think on Question 2 , to ask a question about the Northumbria police which had nothing to do with his constituency . |
| 16 | If Ben Leggatt had earned his living , not as an odd job man at Weston Longville rectory but as a private soldier in one of His Majesty 's foot regiments billetted in Bungay , he would have found the shopkeepers overwilling to let him take away purchases on a promise to pay later — had it not been for the ‘ Crying Down The Credits ’ . |
| 17 | A writes to B offering to sell him his horse Phineas for £100 . |
| 18 | A writes to B offering to sell him his horse Phineas for £100. ( i ) B posts a letter accepting , but he misdirects it and in consequence it is a week late in being delivered to A. Meanwhile A has sold Phineas to C. ( ii ) B , after posting a letter of acceptance to A , sends A a telegram cancelling ‘ my letter now in the post . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When I think of my former sister-in-law agreeing to marry him , it makes me feel ill , positively ill . ’ |
| 20 | In fact a lady who looked like Mae West was hiding in the phone box at the car park waiting to see him as we came along tonight . |
| 21 | Amusement bubbled up in him at this tiny little thing with her hands planted firmly on her hips presuming to tell him what he was going to do . |
| 22 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 23 | DEVOTED wife Wyn Dale told yesterday how she waved her husband off to work then spent more than three years fighting to bring him home . |
| 24 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 25 | Rosentiel 's fourth wife Susan spent ten years trying to divorce him , a decade of singular bitterness , involving his perjury and attempts to jail her . |
| 26 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 27 | As the Young King wavered between the three alternatives of remaining dutifully at his father 's side , going to Jerusalem , or marching into Aquitaine , he was certainly tempted by messages from the rebels offering to recognize him as their Duke , but he may also have been egged on by Geoffrey of Brittany . |
| 28 | Maybe he 'll stay with AT&T on Bob Kavner 's team working to make him king . |
| 29 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's so he knows you ent going to harm him , see . |