Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this baseline showed that on average the child was 4 hours later in going to bed , you know it would be unrealistic to start the intervention programme which suddenly requires him or her to go to bed at 7.30 . |
| 2 | If you have applied to vote by proxy and your application is allowed the registration officer will issue your proxy with a ‘ proxy paper ’ which entitles him or her to go to the polling station and vote for you . |
| 3 | The extent to which a person feels threatened by other people having information about him or her varies from one person to another . |
| 4 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 5 | If you think about and watch the settings of your child 's behaviour , it may be that he or she behaves in a non-compliant way , or has a tantrum on some occasions but not others ; that is , some situations seem to act as cues for him or her to behave in a particular way . |
| 6 | For example , if we go to the doctor , we expect him or her to behave in a particular way , to ask questions about our illness and symptoms , possibly to examine us , to make a diagnosis and perhaps write a prescription . |
| 7 | Tidying up the mess and helping him or her to get to bed is not the best thing to do . |
| 8 | If you are in two minds then give the candidate the benefit of the doubt and allow him or her to come for interview and elaborate on the details given on the form . |
| 9 | Allow him or her to rest for a while to ‘ come round ’ in their own time . |
| 10 | In selecting people for a job we are inclined to go on general appearance , whether we like the person , whether we would like to have him or her working for us . |
| 11 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 12 | That fucking bitch would wish she 'd never seen the book or him or anything to do with it . |
| 13 | The Capricorn will often find him or herself attracted to a partner born under the sign of Virgo , as both signs are complementary to each other . |
| 14 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 15 | He was one of those ‘ look after number one ’ types , not averse to trampling on other people if it got him where he wanted to be . |
| 16 | After the war a man called Alec Howson in Barnard Castle ran the trips and it was with him that we went to Loch Lomond . |
| 17 | You should have told him that we pay for it by the gallon not by the year ! |
| 18 | I assure him that we look at them every year , but he is aware , as he said during his speech , that there are two different objectives : one is to make the assessments as simple as possible ; the other is to make them as fair as possible . |
| 19 | We pointed out to him that we have in that county a structure of adult basic education and community further education which the rest of the country can only dream of . |
| 20 | I was going to say that I was grateful to the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) for raising this issue , because I agree with him that it needs to be properly debated on the Floor of the House . |
| 21 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 22 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 23 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 24 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 25 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 26 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 27 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 28 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |
| 29 | Stavrogin , needling away , elicits from him that he believes in Russia and the Orthodox Church and the body of Christ . |
| 30 | He also contrived to marry several times , on one occasion to a shrewish wench who so exasperated him that he leapt upon her and gave her such a beating that she held her peace thereafter . |