Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fortunes had changed , however , when a man who had befriended her father , Joe Maitland , took him on to manage his warehouse in Dockhead . |
| 2 | She had visions of him slowly unpeeling her fingers , prising them from the door until she fell . |
| 3 | It may be that in those circumstances an injunction could be obtained against him effectively to prevent his giving his authority to advertising activities in the name of the firm which would be prohibited if done in his own name . |
| 4 | He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ . |
| 5 | Some gave him their answer at the door , others invited him inside and sat him down to ask his question . |
| 6 | Oh , he , he always starts to whinge when I lay him down to do his coat up , he do n't like |
| 7 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 8 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |
| 9 | But she loved him enough to understand his silence and found courage from somewhere for both of them . |
| 10 | Kirov had opened himself up so that the younger man would trust him enough to confide his deepest thoughts . |
| 11 | Who , she wondered , had hated him enough to break his neck ? |
| 12 | Despite the fact that the war had ground to a halt while the commanders-in-chief of both armies languished in their respective prisons , the young sprig confronting him obviously took his guard duty seriously . |
| 13 | I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority . |
| 14 | And why , right now , did the thought of seeing him literally cause her pulse to gallop ? |
| 15 | I scampered to his window and begged him not to call my remaining number , but he did . |
| 16 | The visitor wants to know what Hoccleve is doing , and when he finds out , implores him not to publish his Complaint , but to let people forget about his illness . |
| 17 | Mitch was lingering behind , busily clicking away with his wonderful camera and Maggie stifled the need to remind him not to waste his film . |
| 18 | Then in a loud voice his mother told him not to touch my dog as it would probably bite him . |
| 19 | Notes saying what to get for supper , notes telling him not to leave his shoes by the bed … sometimes she left him notes telling him how she felt . |
| 20 | OUTSPOKEN SDLP councillor Brian Feeney returns from the United States today to face a concerted bid by his party colleagues to persuade him not to quit his City Hall seat . |
| 21 | By 587 , however , Brunhild seems to have become the most influential figure at Childebert 's court , even though Guntram , when recognizing his nephew 's coming of age , had advised him not to visit his mother . |
| 22 | It is possible , too , that in striking the rock as he was told to do in Exodus 17 Moses this time has further infringed the divine command , though nothing was said explicitly about him not using his rod in that way . |
| 23 | Told him not to let his report run to more than it absolutely had to , and on no account to make a feature piece out of it . |
| 24 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 25 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
| 26 | D'Arcy gave a potted version , not mentioning that Bliss had instructed him not to warn his client . |
| 27 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 28 | I advise him not to embarrass his hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) in that way . |
| 29 | ‘ Let him not cross my path , that 's all ! ’ he said curtly . |
| 30 | ‘ Let him just show his face , ’ she muttered darkly . |