Example sentences of "[verb] he [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber . |
| 2 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 3 | which would give him a good break really to get a few things done . |
| 4 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 5 | Next time he sends you greetings do give him the right salute instead of the two-fingered one . |
| 6 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll , I 'll drop him a wee note anyway . |
| 8 | I do n't blame him for falling for you , but do n't you go giving him a hard time just before the race ! |
| 9 | Suppose every time one of your subordinates turns in completed work ahead of time you react by giving him a whole load more , what may happen ? |
| 10 | It would take him a long time then would n't it ? |
| 11 | And eventually rap rapped his face and called him a effing person like , you know , it 's |
| 12 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 13 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 14 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 15 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 16 | The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right . |
| 17 | She sent him the sudden grin again and Caspar said , ‘ Oh dear me , what optimism , ’ but he said it quietly . |
| 18 | The high point has to be the three goals he scored against Derrygonnelly in the semi-final , making him a marked man today . |
| 19 | Not a good move , as it turned out , because Mrs Dysart drowned in that stretch of river in 1963 and Gordon , never the same man again , died two years later , during Alan 's first year at Oxford , making him a wealthy man overnight . |
| 20 | Obviously caused by a simple technical fault , this spiriting away of his death gave him a singular nobility totally lacking from the rest of the film . |
| 21 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 22 | I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village . |
| 23 | . I just gave him a quick brush tonight . |
| 24 | This gave him a one-stroke advantage over two players -Bill Nicolson , of Coventry , who had 73 , 69 , and Richard Latham , a local player , who managed 70 , 72 . |
| 25 | Frau Nordern gave him a calculating look then nodded . |
| 26 | She gave him an indifferent look then turned her attention to another potential customer . |
| 27 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 28 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 29 | They had once shared an apartment in Beirut , and when Hamadan later moved to Poland to run the Jafaars ' heroin export business to the Eastern bloc through their offices in Warsaw , Younis had paid him an extended visit there . |
| 30 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |