Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina forced him to staple it to the living-room wall behind the settee and opposite the television . |
| 2 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
| 3 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 4 | May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness . |
| 5 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 6 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 7 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 8 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 9 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 10 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 11 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 14 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 15 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 16 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 17 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 18 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
| 19 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 20 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 21 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 22 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 23 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 24 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 25 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 26 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 27 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 28 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 29 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 30 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |