Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother .
2 When he did n't answer she shot him a fierce look .
3 The screen shivered and cleared as he cut off , which allowed me to offer him a few choice epithets that he could n't hear .
4 One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread .
5 Reckoned it gave him a psychological advantage . ’
6 ‘ There must be lots of people in the village who will want to help us give him a nice birthday .
7 Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water .
8 I would suggest she baths him every four weeks in Vitacoat Gold Seal and uses Velvet coat spray on his feathers and skirt every day .
9 ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way .
10 THE teenage lover of the man accused of carrying out a vicious sex attack on a coast to coast rambler told yesterday how he asked her to give him a false alibi .
11 Sheridan Lorrimore , who was sitting at a table apart from his parents , demanded I bring him a double Scotch at once .
12 I mean we used to go about three times four times did n't we and we oh I bet every time we went she gave him a twenty packet of number ten .
13 For some reason she felt she owed him a serious answer .
14 She opened her mouth to speak , but could not force the sounds out , could not manage to say to Rosalba that Tommaso had wanted her to give him a different rendezvous , somewhere where they could be alone .
15 He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie .
16 Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all !
17 What do I tell him the next time he asks
18 give you a did you give him a blank page ?
19 Did you find him a good employer ? ’
20 He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it —
21 When dinner was over he liked Diana enough to ask her to show him the 115-foot-long picture gallery which then housed one of the finest private collections of art in Europe .
22 He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn .
23 This letter induced me to pay him an urgent visit , as I was doubtful of getting anything out of the Ministry so soon as that , if at all .
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