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

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1 In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago .
2 Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days .
3 And I was with Deborah he gave me a hard
4 Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney .
5 In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet .
6 ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’
7 After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes .
8 One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot .
9 Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning .
10 He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers .
11 Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen .
12 As he pulled back the perspex canopy he permitted himself a small smile at Stallen , whom he knew .
13 ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it .
14 In the teaching controversy he declared himself a strong advocate of at least fingerspelling and stressed the importance of training , knowledge of deaf people and experience of teaching in deaf schools as primary qualifications for teachers .
15 And this way he gets him a good life .
16 And every year he brings me a red rose and a note with the words written : Rudolf — Flavia — always .
17 No doubt he thought himself a national marvel .
18 With Madonna he bought himself a whole new audience , kids under 21 who had never even heard of him .
19 ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks .
20 This time he gave her a genuine smile .
21 In his extraordinary account of his relationship with Mandy Smith he mentions what a wonderful and ‘ giving ’ lover he has always been .
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