Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , one person 's voting choice may be influenced by a party 's commitment to raise pensions , which leads him or her to support it despite its commitment to other policies — say increasing educational expenditure — with which he or she disagrees . |
| 2 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 4 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 5 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 6 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 8 | I took notice of him 'cause he knew everything about football as well as boxing . |
| 9 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 10 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 11 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 12 | ‘ I have never met him and we know nothing of each other ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My brother left me alone in the room with him and I loathed him on sight … then I eventually liked him and then I fell in love with him . ’ |
| 14 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
| 15 | Steven stop running about , sounds like it , you do that again I will , she says , you do that again and I 'm gon na smack you , right , come here , and she gets him and she whacks him in front of every body , did n't she Robert ? |
| 16 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 17 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 18 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 19 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 20 | She held the second shotgun out to him and he slung it across his chest . |
| 21 | She declines to have sexual intercourse with him and he threatens her with eviction and homelessness if she does not comply . |
| 22 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 23 | He saw some of the storm-troopers turn their attention to him and he sprayed them with his MPSK . |
| 24 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 25 | A pretty girl in a white coat came out to him and he reminded her of his appointment . |
| 26 | Even the dust and horse-smell seemed to be still with him and he reminded you of Lamarr Dean and Early and almost everyone of them you ever saw : all made of the same leather and hardly ever smiling unless they were with their own look-alike brothers . |
| 27 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 28 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 29 | The interchange would usually end with Gina kicking Nigel on the shin , clawing him or hitting him if she had something in her hands . |
| 30 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |