Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [conj] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 2 | Kevin Bird took them to Split because he thought he get could from there to Britain . |
| 3 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 4 | I told him I had planned to take him to lunch but he said he could n't wait as he had some business to attend to , but he 'd be in a pub called the Banker if I could pick him up about three . |
| 5 | and him , my mother was away and erm I was with him and we went out he took me out to lunch and he took me shopping and stu well I mean he took , but he was really really , you know how your father always dotes on you if it 's just you and him ? |
| 6 | Ironically Roche , who was so effective at creating business , appeared unable to manage it , and almost drove the firm to bankruptcy when he became its president . |
| 7 | Then the Burewala Bombshell started to work Smith over , kicking a bouncer high over him then hitting him in the box , before having him caught for a duck , pushing to midwicket as he swung his body behind a fixed forward prod : 27 for 2 . |
| 8 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 9 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 10 | Grant calls out to me , and waves me back to safety as he sees it . |
| 11 | Not that John-William was particularly opposed to revolution if he thought he had a chance of winning . |
| 12 | His father 's response was not only to stop sending him money but also to bar him from returning to Zimbala until he renounced his Socialist beliefs . |
| 13 | So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob . |
| 14 | If I 'm with Ibrahim , I go to bed when he tells me , otherwise I just go to bed when I 'm tired . |
| 15 | so he said they put her to bed and he said it was best Christmas they ever ! |
| 16 | He 'd have expected her to wait hungrily for his kissess and his caresses , to come to life when he whispered her name … |
| 17 | Bennett J found that the defendant had not copied any formulae from the book ; that he had not been warned as to secrecy when he entered his employment and that he was able to learn the relevant processes without difficulty ; indeed this was information which he could not help acquiring in the course of his work . |
| 18 | A BANNED driver took a chance and used a van to rush to hospital when he heard his wife was about to have twins . |
| 19 | In Meditatio the Christian monk committed the divine words of his Lectio to memory as he pondered their meaning and , as he did so , he recited them aloud . |
| 20 | He would swing from a despairing belief that he was so great a sinner that it was too late to hope to go to Heaven , to elation as he overcame his great vice of swearing and started to read the Bible . |
| 21 | I made it a rule — which , it is true , he broke from time to time when he had something particularly pressing or intimate to convey — that he should not drop into French while we were together . |
| 22 | From time to time as he read his salutation from a sheet of paper held before him in a white-gloved hand , the Resident Superior squinted at the emperor through his monocle ; his voice was loud and confident and betrayed little outward sign of the extreme deference implied in his spoken words . |
| 23 | In the evening Kalchu went round the village from house to house until he found someone who was going to the Bazaar the following day . |
| 24 | We met them face to face and he gave his full backing . |