Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his retirement , I might try to persuade him to enjoy himself by accompanying me to whatever seaside resort the Conservative party attends for its conference next October — I will ensure his safety of passage into the hall — so that he can see how few pinstripe suits there are , let alone the mythical hats of which he spoke . |
| 2 | Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’ |
| 3 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 4 | ‘ So , Rosie , like a fool I let him manipulate me into working twice as hard as I imagined I would . |
| 5 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 6 | Sir Henry was very unhappy about this , but Holmes asked him to help us by doing everything Holmes ordered him to do . |
| 7 | To cast Michael as a juvenile lead and leave him to do nothing but singing , as the part was on stage , would have been crazy . |
| 8 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 9 | Hoomey saw an ally in Nails , to help him stop them from sending the horses back to the knacker 's . |
| 10 | I made him take me by giving myself to him like a slave . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't let him lead you into discussing other members of the company . ’ |
| 12 | The circumstances are , that the plaintiff had made an engagement to marry Ellen Nicholl , his uncle promising him to assist him at starting , by which , as I understand the words , he meant on commencing his married life . |
| 13 | Only his strong arms holding her tight against him saved her from falling , her bones turning to liquid within her as his lips nuzzled relentlessly towards her ear . |
| 14 | She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them . |
| 15 | I invite him to join me in welcoming this magnificent project , which will do so much for Wales . |
| 16 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 17 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 18 | He sang aloud , in what he amused himself by imagining was a passable accent , ‘ Oh you tak the high road and I 'll tak the low . |
| 19 | In the meantime he amused himself by feeding Dwarf captives to Gobbla , the enormous , malodorous and psychopathically vicious Cave Squig which he kept firmly chained to his left leg . |
| 20 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 21 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 22 | He produced it by heating red mercuric oxide with a 12 inch diameter burning glass . |
| 23 | He produced it by burning at high temperatures finely pulverized lime with clay in certain proportions , and grinding the product . |
| 24 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 25 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 26 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 27 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 28 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 29 | He thinks nothing of doing business with the pariahs of the UN . |
| 30 | He redeemed himself by sending over a good cross for P Reid to put the Olympic in front . |