Example sentences of "he [conj] [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 2 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 3 | She wriggled away from him and stared him in the face . |
| 4 | If he had come begging and pleading , I would have laughed at him and kicked him in the teeth . |
| 5 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 6 | It nauseated him and wakened him in the night with a palpitating heart . |
| 7 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |
| 8 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 9 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 10 | Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’ |
| 11 | Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit . |