Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love . |
| 2 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 3 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 4 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 5 | Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person . |
| 6 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 7 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 8 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 9 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 10 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 11 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 12 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 13 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 14 | he has he the same problems that we 've all had you know erm and yes he 's , he 's , he 's very easy to listen to despite the fact that he 's a southerner . |
| 15 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 16 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 17 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 18 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 19 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 20 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 21 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 22 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 23 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 24 | Could he give her the best of food or pay for a doctor if she fell sick or buy her fine clothes or anythin' she fancies ? |
| 25 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 26 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 27 | He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing . |
| 28 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 29 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 30 | He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself . |