Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want him to see what the reality is , compared with the tabloid myth , ’ said a party organiser . |
| 2 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 3 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 4 | And I would n't let him give me the strap then . |
| 5 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 6 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 7 | I could n't see him throwing it away , but I did n't want him to give himself the chance . |
| 8 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 9 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We now want him to give us the name of his accomplice . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is the experience of similar events which enables him to judge what the purpose of an utterance might be . |
| 17 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 18 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 19 | She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet . |
| 20 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 21 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 22 | It would only confuse him to tell him the truth . |
| 23 | Of no mean magnetism himself — Lawrence thought highly enough of him to make him the recipient of some of his most excruciating introspections — Curtis was the inspirational force of that curious organization , the Round Table , in whose journal of the same name Lawrence published his article on the new imperialism in the Middle East . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 26 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 27 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 28 | He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second . |
| 29 | He passed her the can . |
| 30 | He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket . |