Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.

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1 couple of months he said he , it could be a couple of years , it depends on how quick it get , work gets done and how long they think they need you .
2 If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience .
3 I 'd be interested to know whether Neil did that list of things I asked him to do .
4 But sometimes , because he does n't have hundreds of depots I think he 's not regional , but that 's my own fault .
5 She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her .
6 But the momentary paralysis and the matter of seconds it took him to unwind and cast off the incubus cost him his chance .
7 On the worst of occasions he felt he could no longer communicate with God .
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