Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 2 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 3 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 4 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 5 | She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’ |
| 6 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 7 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 8 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 9 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 10 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 11 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 12 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 13 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 14 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 15 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
| 16 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 17 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 18 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 19 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 20 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 21 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 22 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 23 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 24 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 25 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 26 | He began to nibble the lobe of her ear and seemed lost for a moment until she gave him a little shake to encourage him to go on and explain . |
| 27 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 28 | He could make a film with Nastassia Kinski , the most beautiful woman in the world ( Time had just said so , on its cover ) and she left him a slim book of Baudelaire , with some verses underlined . |
| 29 | ‘ Top o ’ the mornin' to you , Sister Hennessy ! ’ he sang , cheerful as ever , and she shot him a black look . |
| 30 | Shannon was pleased to welcome the warmth of the flames , but his easy success with a task she knew would have taken her hours irritated her still further and she shot him a withering look . |