Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E always liked the drink . ‘ |
| 2 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 3 | He knew exactly why the Curator had asked him in to see the eagle — a most unusual thing for someone as unimportant as him to be called in personally in this way . |
| 4 | Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child . |
| 5 | ‘ Very cross that Anthony wo n't let him in to share the nursing , ’ said Comfort drily . |
| 6 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 8 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 9 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 10 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 11 | In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop , but the noise behind him only frightened the coward more . |
| 12 | Captain 's sent him ashore to take the headrope . " |
| 13 | ‘ Bacci , tell him not to leave the hotel . ’ |
| 14 | Told him not to do the garden until I 've finished . |
| 15 | You could trust him not to take the mickey , or to turn round and bite your head off . |
| 16 | Jack 's father had asked him not to mention the accident in front of the younger children . |
| 17 | Graham asked him not to summon the porter to his office . |
| 18 | MDU members felt that Batmönh was the only leader capable of making responsible decisions and begged him not to resign the presidency . |
| 19 | Within hours of saying on BBC radio that his candidacy was ‘ almost certain , ’ Sir Anthony , MP for Clwyd North-west , was summoned by Mr Cranley Onslow , chairman of the backbenchers ' 1922 Committee , who told him not to damage the party at a difficult mid-term juncture . |
| 20 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 21 | Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me . |
| 22 | Nevertheless drawings by him still lined the hall which led into the bar , and for a period a mural by Minton , with some assistance from others , hung in the dining-room where visitors could dine simply or expensively , eating plates of goulash or a champagne supper , seated at scrubbed oak tables and benches . |
| 23 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 24 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 25 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |
| 26 | Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) . |
| 27 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 28 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 29 | Other talking points were Paul Cadd 's clapped-out car and slow driving , and him nearly feeling the Hand of Plod when he rather loudly called Rik Mayell a ******* **** after he was announced man of the match : the local constable was ideally placed ( on the touchline , two yards away ) and had a real nik-nik look in his eye . |
| 30 | She did n't offer to take him back to meet the cast . |