Example sentences of "[verb] he [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One look from those eyes when someone had displeased him and we 'd all be walking around on eggshells . |
| 2 | In all his thirty-three years no single woman had ever addressed him after such a fashion , or spoken of such a delicate matter . |
| 3 | More serious offences such as being drunk and disorderly or damaging property , labelled him as REFRACTORY , and he could then be locked up in a separate room with bread and water for twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | Ski shows up but is reluctant to talk to the press after a New York Daily News story labelled him and his friends ‘ reformed gang members ’ . |
| 5 | Oh well you can buy him if you want . |
| 6 | Cuntona 's brother is looking for a club in England — wonder if the Scum will buy him as well ? |
| 7 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 8 | Mellor claimed that he had been driven out of office by the tabloid press , which had pursued him since the discovery in July of his extramarital affair with an actress , Antonia de Sancha . |
| 9 | This is in sharp contrast to the Ministerial rule book , which states : ‘ No Minister or public servant should accept gifts , hospitality or services from anyone which would , or might appear to , place him or her under an obligation . |
| 10 | ‘ No Minister or public servant should accept gifts , hospitality or services from anyone which would , or might appear to , place him or her under an obligation . ’ |
| 11 | No person acting under a proxy may vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place him or any associate of his in a position to receive any remuneration out of the estate of the bankrupt ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 12 | Crerand bitterly resents Docherty who dismissed him as Manchester United 's assistant manager and according to the ex-Celtic halfback , the late Jock Stein once described Docherty as ‘ nothing but a Glasgow corner boy . ’ |
| 13 | But , it was said , he took him to his flat and indecently assaulted him while two other men looked on . |
| 14 | On one occasion , as Glynn held the King 's Court in Liskeard , a mob assaulted him and he was ‘ … greviously wounded in the face ’ before being thrown into Liskeard prison . |
| 15 | He turned on the cameraman , assaulted him and threw his camera into the water . |
| 16 | A GLASGOW bus driver said yesterday that he might have been blinded during an attack by a drunken passenger who had broken into his cabin and assaulted him as he drove through the city centre one Saturday evening . |
| 17 | You will recognise him because he will be sitting alone reading a paperback edition of the Holy Koran . ’ |
| 18 | Gavin Lees was found by a railway bridge by his father , who did n't recognise him because his injuries were so severe . |
| 19 | I have never met editor Malcolm Fillmore , but I shall recognise him when I see him : pale of countenance , slight of figure . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you recognise him when you walked in ? ’ he demanded . |
| 21 | She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway . |
| 22 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |
| 23 | It is only through the work of Christ , through the impact on us of what he has done , that we can recognise him as divine and describe his person in divine terms . |
| 24 | Mr Morris said : ‘ Steadman knew that Mr Foster would recognise him and therefore , the Crown say , decided to kill him . |
| 25 | When he entered into Calpurnia an army officer came to him and tricking him and saying , sir , my manservant is laid up in the house with paralysis being terribly tormented , he said to him when I get there I will cure her in reply the army officer said sir , I am not a fit man for you to enter under my roof , but just say the word and my manservant will be healed |
| 26 | Courteous and concerned , he is the exact opposite of a British policeman , there when you want him but otherwise wholly unobtrusive . |
| 27 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 28 | If this is indeed the respondent 's belief , we want him or her to advance the idea spontaneously , so we might have : ‘ Had you any difficulty in making the choice of subjects that you study ? ’ ; |
| 29 | ‘ That 's the way I want him because we have a quiet bunch of lads who need bossing about . ’ |
| 30 | Furthermore they know that they can trust him because he will not filch money from the common agricultural policy , as Labour would do , to use it for other purposes . |