Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yer know 'ow 'e loves boxin' . |
| 2 | ‘ Danny met 'im when 'e finished work . |
| 3 | I only 'ope 'e finds time ter marry this 'un , whoever she is . ’ |
| 4 | I always knew there was somefink a bit fishy about that bloke when 'e lodged wiv Florrie . |
| 5 | ‘ If yer miss payin' 'e 'll do the same as 'e did wiv us . |
| 6 | As for the future , Clayton hopes to produce a book of selected work and is trying to convince his superiors to let him cover sport full time for the SMH , though he keeps an open mind . |
| 7 | For years I was trying to get him to go part time but he always put it off . |
| 8 | ‘ I want him to go south immediately , to Godstowe . |
| 9 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 10 | His chief financial adviser , Simon Scher , a young Englishman who , after Cambridge , had trained at the Harvard Business School , was urging him to go public . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell him to go fuck himself ! ’ |
| 12 | His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry . |
| 13 | The new provision differs from the old in one significant way , by altering the terminology in which the Act is couched from the senior police officer 's ‘ opinion ’ that he is unable to prevent the serious public disorder to ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the imposition of conditions will not enable him to preserve order . |
| 14 | HERBERT Blaize , a courtly politician of a bygone Caribbean era , believed God had chosen him to restore democracy to Grenada after 7,000 US troops invaded his island in 1983 to overthrow its marxist rulers . |
| 15 | It was an unfair advantage , though ; it made it harder for him to evade answering . |
| 16 | He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time . |
| 17 | I did n't ring him to borrow money , because he never has any to lend . |
| 18 | ‘ We did n't overdo or over emphasize Ken 's neuterism because we had him make love or going after it , but we knew that underneath it all was another character . ’ |
| 19 | Downstairs he let me watch him make tea ( in the outer cellar ) , and something ridiculous he said made me laugh — or want to laugh . |
| 20 | Moffat 's lawyer said that family trouble and a broken relationship had caused him to lose control . |
| 21 | It was typical of him to see politics in ethical terms . |
| 22 | It was probably because she was always so reluctant to let him make love to her , she decided . |
| 23 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 24 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 25 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 26 | For a while she even forgot why she was letting him make love to her in her surprise at the pleasure of it . |
| 27 | ‘ I told him to wear plastic but he said he could n't feel it ’ is reinforced by the line , ‘ ask them if they paid their child support last week ’ . |
| 28 | I ca n't argue with this , but I urge him to include driving lessons in his New Year 's resolutions . |
| 29 | These would have bound him to support majority decisions , even where these decisions were not accepted by the ILP Group . |
| 30 | The former prime minister , Mr Edward Heath , said he had not heard one convincing argument which would lead him to support legislation to change the whole legal system in order to bring these alleged war criminals to trial . |