Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] i [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I was with Deborah he gave me a hard |
2 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
3 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And every year he brings me a red rose and a note with the words written : Rudolf — Flavia — always . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |