Example sentences of "to he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already noted that he is loquacious on certain topics , but he implicates an attitude of , at least , indifference to McKendrick by the way he appears not to take up turns allocated to him enthusiastically , and to allocate turns to McKendrick infrequently . |
| 2 | It occurred to him forcibly that he would have no objection at all to extending this romantic episode further . |
| 3 | Count Raymond came to him privately and told him that Eleanor and his other sons were also plotting against him . |
| 4 | " Your mother called Mr Lee out of the party and spoke to him privately in the sitting room , Jane said suddenly . |
| 5 | The fact that he had been unaware that there was a problem at all , and that people had grievances they felt unable to air to him privately , was , perhaps , a measure of him losing touch since moving office to the houseboat . |
| 6 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 7 | While Oliver talked to Mrs Bedwin , Rose asked Mr Brownlow if she could speak to him privately . |
| 8 | Last year the student leaders were coming to him privately asking for his ideas . |
| 9 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 10 | One was overwhelmed by its huge peace , opening to him little by little like the rose of peace in his own breast . |
| 11 | The shouted question seemed to him little more than a whisper . |
| 12 | She drew close to him instead . |
| 13 | ‘ Andrew was a good bet , so she said yes to him instead . ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes Maisie went to him instead of me because he was the one who was there and I was the one who went away . |
| 15 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 16 | He intended to enjoy the next interview , although he could n't understand why Meik had come to him instead of to Lord Chomsmy . |
| 17 | It was n't fair that your grandmother left her fortune to him instead of sharing it with you just because he 's a man and she had an old-fashioned prejudice that women should n't own money . |
| 18 | Putting her hands on his shoulders , she meant to push him away indignantly , but felt the hard , supple warmth of muscle beneath her fingers , and tightened her hands involuntarily , convulsively clinging to him instead of rejecting him . |
| 19 | With sudden resolution , she opened the door to despatch Alfred in search of the missing lady , but seeing Auguste just arriving for his final check that all was in order with the drinks , she appealed to him instead . |
| 20 | Instead of finding consolation in Orton who was out , he stayed to talk to Halliwell — who could n't understand why Ken would want to talk to him instead of the writer . |
| 21 | Now she understood what that something precious Fernando had was that would guarantee Maria Luisa returned to him instead of staying with Steve . |
| 22 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Because , if not , I 'm going to see my solicitor in the morning , cos if you wo n't speak to me , you can speak to him instead ! |
| 24 | Do n't let your resentment build up any more — explain the financial situation to him clearly and calmly . |
| 25 | And with good reason — it has been done to him already ! |
| 26 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
| 27 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 28 | It was worse than before , when he had taken her so powerfully into his arms and she had felt him thieve unresisting kisses from her lips , for now he was playing with her heart , not just her senses , and it was , she found , a vulnerable organ , halfway to belonging to him already . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , the girl was n't even married to him yet . |
| 30 | I wonder if Abul Ismail has got to him yet . ’ |