Example sentences of "he [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can not be attacked in hand-to-hand combat either — the only way to destroy a Fanatic is to shoot him or to wait and let him collapse from exhaustion . |
| 2 | And last night the Prime Minister 's despairing supporters were trotting out the ‘ back him or sack him ’ line that Mrs Thatcher used to fall back on when she was in trouble . |
| 3 | If someone tries to harm you in London , it will be hard to stop him or catch him afterwards . |
| 4 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 5 | Rain said : ‘ I do n't know whether to admire him or despise him . |
| 6 | Thus , in sexual matters , the problems presented are practically always those which affect him or reside in him . |
| 7 | One could only fear him or fight him , and she had chosen to fight long ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Since I am not to see him or speak with him alone ever again , in truth it matters little where he is . ’ |
| 9 | He watched as she poured water from the jug into the bowl and quickly washed and then dressed ; not once did she look at him or speak one word . |
| 10 | She did not want to see him or speak to him . |
| 11 | Would release embarrass him or cut him off from that obscure membership of the masculine club ? |
| 12 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 13 | She would n't question him or argue with him or threaten his authority . |
| 14 | After all , it was join him or prop up the door for a few hours . |
| 15 | Does she entice him or does he appear by chance ? |
| 16 | No one had questioned him or seemed suspicious . |
| 17 | By the time you had arrested him or put his trousers on . |
| 18 | Whoever had killed Don Roberto had known him or had a first-rate introduction because there were no signs of violence other than the knife wound and Don Roberto had given his staff time off . |
| 19 | The gunsmith would have murdered him or had a heart attack . |
| 20 | Mr Brown refused to say how the papers had been shown to him or to disclose their further contents . |
| 21 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 22 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 23 | I 'll have it out of him or turn him over to the press gang . |
| 24 | He approached the fallen man , either to arrest him or make sure he was dead , whereupon Elliot came to life and stabbed Bothwell three times . |
| 25 | If a member of the public sees him then they should on no account approach him or make a disturbance . |
| 26 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 27 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 28 | This had the effect of giving the police a further 24 hours to question the suspect , charge him or release him . |
| 29 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 30 | Love him or loathe him , Adrian Mole and his secret diary were as much a part of the 1980s as portable phones and rich estate agents . |