Example sentences of "he [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From an idealised , spiritual love for Kee which always had something sickly and perverse about it , he plunged into the lightless sub-world of labour , submerging himself in its mean and desperate poverty , as if to kill off once and for all the romanticism which had brought him nothing but pain . |
| 2 | The thought of that now brought him nothing but misery . |
| 3 | Yet here he is , pleading for the life of the stubborn nation that caused him nothing but trouble ! |
| 4 | However much we may lament Mr Swinton 's recent seclusion , we are forced to conclude that it has done him nothing but good . |
| 5 | He says sure , he was clean all right , and the screws left him nothing but a shit-soiled bucket and two aspirin to sort himself out with . |
| 6 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 7 | But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist . |
| 8 | But she asked no questions about his past life and told him nothing about hers . |
| 9 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |
| 10 | She had told him nothing of what her interviews with Mrs Diamond and Morpurgo had yielded and he had not pressed her to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ I gave him nothing of the sort ! ’ |
| 12 | I 'll tell him nothing of the sort , Fernando Serra , because your problems are your own , ’ she husked pityingly . |
| 13 | They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all . |
| 14 | Determined not to look at the brute of a man opposite , Fabia was in the act of deciding that she would ask him nothing in future — not even for a ride back to Mariánské Láznë , she 'd take a taxi sooner — when she was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt . |
| 15 | Yet if she had she would have imagined for him someone like Mrs Pascoe , someone who gave an instant impression of being a first-class housekeeper ( the house was immaculate , everything well chosen and highly polished ) and combined energetic work for her local community with a modest reticence about herself . |
| 16 | Mr Barre 's brutality has made him plenty of enemies , and recently he has lost his knack for balancing the clans . |
| 17 | Spartan Missile had made a bad mistake at the eighteenth and Thorne was giving him plenty of time to recover . |
| 18 | Rowden is a fine school and it 'll give him plenty of sports and develop a side of him which could never see the light of day in Ireland . |
| 19 | I pointed out that people liked to have something to sit on but promised that I 'd leave him plenty of scope for pacing , which was the way he did his thinking . |
| 20 | He opted for a job as an arc metalworker for a firm that allowed him plenty of time off for competing in meetings and , as he was an international , he travelled overseas often . |
| 21 | Ask your butcher to bone the turkey for you — but give him plenty of warning . |
| 22 | Reg Pybus , with his gun at my head , is always ready to stab me in the back though , and eighteen unlucky defeats has given him plenty of ammunition . |
| 23 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 24 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 25 | One more word — have mercy on the player and give him plenty of rests . |
| 26 | He told him which of his fellow owners were open to a spot of friendly blackmail . |
| 27 | But the psychoanalytic theory of paranoia enables us to see that these two equally-well-attested interpretations are not in any way in conflict with one another because in the latent content of paranoia we find both a tendency to symbolize the father as the sun and a delusion of persecution concerning him which in a typically paranoid way denies the homosexual factor by saying I do not love him , he hates me . |
| 28 | To him who by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for , or even think of . |
| 29 | Taking deep breaths he was patted on the back by a man beside him who in a shallow voice said , |
| 30 | Did you give him none of my messages ? ’ |