Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 2 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 3 | At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career . |
| 4 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 5 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 6 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 7 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 8 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 9 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 10 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |