Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William was just five months 11 days old at the start ; he had already sailed over 1,500 miles , was the contented centre of attention and was still fresh from triumph in the fancy dress competition , where he earned himself the prize of a furry whale for his appearance as a white mouse . |
| 2 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 3 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ Now that you know that it 's Luke , that he sent you the letter , what are you going to do ? ’ |
| 5 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 6 | I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year . |
| 7 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 8 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 9 | It does n't follow that he knows what the matter is — ‘ honestly , though , I do n't know what 's wrong with me , ’ he adds . |
| 10 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 11 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 12 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 13 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 14 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 15 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 16 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 17 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 18 | She stared at him and he knew what the answer was going to be . |
| 19 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 20 | And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story . |
| 21 | And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi . |
| 22 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 23 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 24 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 25 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 26 | And he said what the heck will I do now when my savings is gone ? |
| 27 | And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there . |
| 28 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 29 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 30 | I sat up and he gave me the handkerchief out of his pyjama pocket . |