Example sentences of "[v-ing] he [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 2 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 3 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 4 | This hot-tempered ingrate was denying him his rights as head of the tribe . |
| 5 | A further complication was the undertaking given by Henry V that he would use every means at his disposal to bring under his control those extensive areas of France not yet according him their allegiance , an ambitious military plan which , it could be argued , was beyond his financial and military capabilities . |
| 6 | And today on a satellite link from Everest he admitted his solo climb without Oxygen had come close to costing him his life . |
| 7 | As she spoke she was laying him a place at the kitchen table , and serving him his meal . |
| 8 | In an interview with Central News he says he wants his lawyer to seek a court hearing to apply for bail granting him his release before the Appeal takes place . |
| 9 | Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ . |
| 10 | She wished he were not being so kind , so tender — even if it was because he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house . |
| 11 | Instead of selling him your goods , you let him have them on consignment . |
| 12 | coerces some kid into selling him his marbles , that 's corruption is n't it ? |
| 13 | Haldane , according to Drummond , had assured him that he might ‘ depend on all his interest in order to make me happy in every opportunity , in the event on my giveing him my vote & intrest ’ . |
| 14 | Reformists , closet-reformists and non-party intellectuals gathered in his home , feeding him their ideas and plotting against hardliners . |
| 15 | But here we have an unexpected aid : one of the forged Canterbury documents — a letter from Pope John XII to Archbishop Dunstan sending him his pallium — had been copied and had left Canterbury before the illicit addition was made . |
| 16 | I have a friend called Ionel in Romania whose life has genuinely been improved in a small way by my sending him your paper , the contents of which he shares with his friends and so on . |
| 17 | If only there were some compromise between calling him Your Excellency and calling him Nicolo … |
| 18 | However , the dividing line between what is and what is not permissible is often difficult to draw , as Maugham LJ illustrated in the Wessex Dairies case : … although the servant is not entitled to make use of information which he has obtained in confidence in his master 's service he is entitled to make use of the knowledge and skill which he acquired while in that service , including knowledge and skill directly obtained from the master in teaching him his business . |
| 19 | After she finished her work experience , she had returned to London without giving him her address and had seen him only once , by chance , after that . |
| 20 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 21 | You can try by giving him his work back and saying , " You 've made three spelling mistakes there . |
| 22 | Mr Goldring said the accused had been giving him his grandmother 's tablets . |
| 23 | Giving him his liberty would not cancel his debt however . |
| 24 | It 's a useful way of getting a perspective on the present , to realize that people think and feel in such different ways , in totally alien ways , that are completely unsympathetic , which is why feminism is an interesting development , because the ability to read something written in a totally patriarchal tradition , and to make the sympathetic adjustment , giving him his due , recognizing that he could n't have thought what you think , because people did n't think like that then … . |
| 25 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 26 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 27 | Even , perhaps , that he was agreeable to her asking him her questions over the telephone . |
| 28 | POP star Simon Le Bon has helped out hard-up judo ace Ray Stevens — by lending him his car . |
| 29 | I asked , handing him my passport . |
| 30 | Handing him his drink , she sat down on the sofa . |