Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] the [noun] he " in BNC.

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1 Of course , the Prince himself has not yet been spoken to , but his secretary , Chang Shih-sen advises me that the copies he was given on his last visit are gone . ’
2 And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good .
3 In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’
4 Shocked and exhausted by the severity of the work and his illness , he had spoken little of himself or the family he had left behind in the north .
5 The salesperson should open with a smile , a handshake and , in situations where he or she is not well known to the buyer , introduce himself and the company he represents .
6 There was , he calculated , seldom less than a hundred miles between himself and the people he loved .
7 It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn .
8 If the cast had needed a demonstration of Michael Banks 's genuine warmth , they could not have asked for a better one than the way he dealt with Alex Household .
9 His coming displayed no jot of his inner feelings , though his heart sank at the array of knee breeches and crinolines , and at last it occurred to him that the lunatics he had met upstairs were in Dickensian dress .
10 Doc Threadneedle had warned her that the alterations he had made would affect her mind , so she could be confused without realizing it .
11 He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led .
12 ‘ It 's not very clever , because it makes the parents look as if they 're idiots when they 're not — it says more about him than the people he 's speaking about . ’
13 When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him .
14 Frequently , the scientific understanding needed for the progress he wanted to make was not available to him and the work he began did not bear fruit until after his death .
15 Almost , but not quite , she had come between him and the work he had had to do in New York City .
16 It allowed him a view of the patio and put Schmidt between him and the door he 'd entered by .
17 He said : ‘ Many of them were aware of him and the job he does , but the first thing they did was to rush over and ask him for his autograph . ’
18 Opposition crumbled before him and the path he followed was strewn with gold .
19 ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked .
20 Ferdinando , a clean white blouse on and freshly shaved , looked the handsome fellow who had first attracted her and the way he carried his son , with ease and pride , made her feel warm towards him .
21 He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes .
22 It hurt her because the feeling he aroused in her was so hard to analyse .
23 ‘ I asked him whether the person he was meeting was anything to do with him being followed , but he just laughed . ’
24 I think of him as an artist who writes history , and I take it that the history he writes includes the history he has principally suffered — that of Poland .
25 We suppose that this person takes it that the rule he learnt demands this continuation rather than the one we favour ( which is of course the right one ) .
26 Then with it and the blanket he slipped out of the room , shutting the door quietly and letting the knob go back slowly without a sound .
27 Steve Goodwin is The Drummer From Cud and he 's pretending that he thinks it 's a really cool joke ha ha ha that both he and the band he loves have become a synonym for wanky indie crap .
28 From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month .
29 Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’
30 Omar assured us that the Somalis he had engaged would wait contentedly with the camels until we turned up .
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