Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 2 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 3 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 4 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 5 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 6 | And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love . |
| 7 | ‘ We now want him to give us the name of his accomplice . ’ |
| 8 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 9 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 10 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 11 | It would only confuse him to tell him the truth . |
| 12 | Of no mean magnetism himself — Lawrence thought highly enough of him to make him the recipient of some of his most excruciating introspections — Curtis was the inspirational force of that curious organization , the Round Table , in whose journal of the same name Lawrence published his article on the new imperialism in the Middle East . |