Example sentences of "he [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 2 | Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ? |
| 3 | Story-telling is considered a part of a woman 's magical repertoire — a device she can use to affect the listener , melting his heart , distracting him or binding him to her as the occasion demands . |
| 4 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 5 | The claim failed when the EAT held that neither the derecognition of an established trade union , nor the disadvantages for employees resulting from that derecognition , was action taken against Mr Wilson ‘ as an individual ’ for the purpose of penalising him or deterring him from being a union member . |
| 6 | There was a fine line to walk between protecting him and urging him to self-reliance . |
| 7 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 8 | If you put him to bed and he cries , check on him every few minutes , reassuring him you 're there by talking to him and stroking him before leaving the room . |
| 9 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 10 | ‘ I can easily go back to normal , ’ Maggie got out quickly but he reached out and captured her hand , spinning her towards him and catching her in his arms . |
| 11 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 12 | Never before had she argued so passionately with a man , hating him and wanting him with an intensity that frightened her . |
| 13 | ‘ Mummy , I want Mummy , ’ hitting him and butting him in the stomach with her head , like a little goat . |
| 14 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 15 | Anpetuwi , where he had come with his hurt and confusion , and Anpetuwi , which had not disappointed him , taking him and holding him in its gentle heart as a mother held a child . |
| 16 | Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’ |
| 17 | And he puts , he puts his arm round him and he goes like , he 's got his arm round him and squeezing him like that . |
| 18 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 19 | He had told Fahfakhs that the young man wanted to marry Claudia , and perhaps he thought that the district officer was laughing at him and treating him with contempt . |
| 20 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 21 | [ He confesses however his current partner fell in love with him when watching him on stage pretending to translate a Peurto Rican goalkeeper onstage . ] |