Example sentences of "[prep] he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 2 | But Campbell said : ‘ It 's not a case of him talking me into the move . |
| 3 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 4 | Well as he said well he did n't say but I mean it 's just a question of him putting them in the post . |
| 5 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |
| 6 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 7 | The presbytery having dealt with him to bring him to the conviction of the evil of the said practice did appoint him to be publickly rebuked two several Lord 's days in the Kirk of Kilarrow and Kilmeny . |
| 8 | The presbytery having dealt with him to bring him to the conviction of the evil of the said practice did appoint him to be publickly rebuked two several Lord 's days in the Kirk of Kilarrow and Kilmeny . |
| 9 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 10 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 11 | I think there was a driving need in him to push himself to the limits , and there was a purity in the desert and in the Arabs as a race which appealed to him . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 13 | The doctor was concerned enough about him to trail him on a journey that Thomas then made to London Airport . |
| 14 | Fat women and bald-headed men standing in the doorways of tiny shops make jokes to him which he ca n't quite understand , and shout ribaldries to each other about him clapping him on the shoulder to indicate they 're not serious , and cutting slices of cheese and sausage for him to try . |
| 15 | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor . |
| 16 | Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ? |
| 17 | Their findings disturbed the High Loremaster sufficiently for him to take them to the Phoenix King . |
| 18 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 19 | She waited for him to invite her into the car and out for the day . |
| 20 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 21 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 22 | It was so unusual for him to contribute anything to the conversation that Paula glanced at him in surprise . |
| 23 | From a sitting position he rubbed and thumped the leg until it responded sufficiently for him to drag himself to the bathroom . |
| 24 | For him to endorse her as a ‘ major literary figure ’ sticks in his gullet . |
| 25 | Forced on to what she really meant to say , Kate fumbles for words , absurdly feeling she has to simplify , patronise in order for him to understand her in a language foreign to him , that she must not hurt his feelings , he is part of the oppressed majority , colonised daily by the people she has come to work for . |
| 26 | He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy . |
| 27 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 28 | Love reaching out to him took him by the heart and wrung him . |
| 29 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 30 | Mr eleven year old son offered to help so one of the put a gun to him and forced him to lead them to him threatening him at the same time . |