Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , are you going to give it to Mr or do you want to give it to me to give to him or whatever suits you |
| 2 | It is up to you whether you allow him or her to call you as being late or early ; I like to do this myself from the back of the boat . |
| 3 | Drop by the record company , go to the reception , give your tape to the receptionist and try to persuade him or her to put your demo on to your target A&R person 's desk . |
| 4 | It is possible to allow the child to move the existing words about the screen by means of a light pen , cursor control or joystick , but requiring him or her to type them in encourages correct spelling and concentration . |
| 5 | Hence , one person 's voting choice may be influenced by a party 's commitment to raise pensions , which leads him or her to support it despite its commitment to other policies — say increasing educational expenditure — with which he or she disagrees . |
| 6 | Write a letter to a well-known personality asking him or her to open your new shop . |
| 7 | In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs . |
| 8 | ( Practise that defensive movement with a friend and you will be amazed at how fast you can turn to protect yourself , and how difficult you can make it for him or her to hit you . ) |
| 9 | This may require him or her to use what might be called ‘ metaphysical ’ terms . |
| 10 | The child has learned that tantrums effectively help him or her to get his or her own way . |
| 11 | In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory . |
| 12 | We 've got him where we want him , and he 's looking well . ’ |
| 13 | Well , anyway , you 've got him where you want him . |
| 14 | At election time we have a talk and he watches TV and then it 's up to him where he puts his cross . |
| 15 | Peggy ’ — he put his hand out towards her — ‘ I 've got him where I want him , where we all want him . |
| 16 | In the bedroom , Cati hugged herself and preened , ‘ Rosa , Rosa , Rosa , she 's got him where she wants him . ’ |
| 17 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 18 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 20 | We know he 's thorough , and puts such fear into those who serve him that they do his work as he will have it done . |
| 21 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 22 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 23 | It is no matter to him that he loses his hold over his children and his erstwhile fiancée . |
| 24 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 25 | His doctor had checked him out , told him that he had nothing to worry about . |
| 26 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 27 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 28 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 29 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 30 | Even trying to shield herself from him , she could feel that void in him that he wanted her to fill . |