Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] he the " in BNC.

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1 His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time .
2 In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed :
3 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
4 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
5 a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent .
6 So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know .
7 Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had .
8 I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’
9 He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book .
10 He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti .
11 I wo n't have anything more to do with you lot till you give him the elbow .
12 The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice .
13 She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass .
14 Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ?
15 That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left .
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