Example sentences of "he [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | b ) if the Council determine as aforesaid , any discretion as to the benefits payable to or in respect of him which the scheme confers on the Council shall be exercised only with the consent of the Secretary of State given with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 2 | So aware of the ‘ internationalism of art ’ ( he told the story himself ) that when a journalist asked him who the great French artists were , he replied : ‘ Why , Picasso , Modigliani , Lipchitz , Stravinsky ’ — a Spaniard , an Italian and two Russians . |
| 3 | In fact I still remember ‘ Tiger Smith ’ coming into our dressing-room while I was giving a pre-season captain 's talk and asking him who the hell he was . |
| 4 | ‘ It was rather touching that when I told him who the other members of the cast were — Ian Richardson , Zena Walker and Freddie Jones — he said : ‘ Do they know who it is who 's playing the character ? ’ |
| 5 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 6 | When Diana once asked him what the capital of Australia was , he was rendered totally speechless . |
| 7 | A commotion ensued when Stirling loudly asked him what the hell was going on , and the alerted Italians began shouting . |
| 8 | We are reverent and grateful to God , showing him what the Old Testament frequently calls , ‘ the fear of the Lord ’ . |
| 9 | When Kalchu asked him what the others would do , he confirmed our suspicion . |
| 10 | His own terrible fear and anger had communicated itself to his father and shown him what the better part of valour was : keeping silent . |
| 11 | He asked the lawyer to tell him what the Law said . |
| 12 | After yesterday 's show — all about problems in relationships — Jenny said : ‘ I have never told him what the pie was but now he will know and I hope he is sick . ’ |
| 13 | It is even of importance to him what the moral tone of the whole society is — shocking as it may seem to libertarians to raise this issue — because freedom and individual diversity can only flourish in a society where there is a general recognition of their worth . |
| 14 | She had told him what the cat was called . |
| 15 | So we 've got to tell him what the options are . |
| 16 | Joseph was trying to get someone to explain to him what the exchanges between Durance and Maurin had been about and where Maurin had gone . |
| 17 | When we had eaten in silence I asked him what the trouble was . |
| 18 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 19 | And she really must remember to ask him what the rate was . |
| 20 | If he will be quiet I shall tell him what the Labour party proposes to do . |
| 21 | He was overjoyed when Alan showed him his plans , and told him what the different symbols meant , so that the lines on the paper became a living world of houses , roads and trees . |
| 22 | I asked him what the problem was and he told us that when people are together and a lot of energy is being created through tension , it can manifest itself in equipment failures . ’ |
| 23 | Did you ask him what the point of that was , was it a technicality ? |
| 24 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 25 | There had n't been time on the way up to ask him what the results of the tests had been or what the union had consequently decided . |
| 26 | She told him what the old lady had said . |
| 27 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 28 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 29 | Well did n't we , no we have n't told him what the fault is even though have we so |
| 30 | I asked him what the time was when I rang and he said |