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 might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 4 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 5 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 6 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 7 | God under takes to teach us through the Spirit if we will allow him to lead us into a closer understanding of and obedience to Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 10 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
| 11 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 12 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 13 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 14 | Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 19 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 24 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 27 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 28 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 29 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 30 | 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 . |