Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 2 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 3 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 4 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 5 | Then looking at him again she said , ‘ He sometimes had a walking stick , and … and on that day he bought me a parasol . ’ |
| 6 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 7 | Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table . |
| 8 | On that occasion he sent her a bouquet of flowers , from ‘ Fred ’ to ‘ Gladys ’ . |
| 9 | After a while he offered her a cigarette . |
| 10 | Well at any rate he gave me a ring about erm sometime about four o'clock I think . |
| 11 | Absolutely I was aware that Graham was very anxious to be involved in this process , er for example he wrote me a note and I think other members and it 's because of those , of those notes that I was anxious that we should inform them of what we were up to and if you want to share any of the papers or agendas please ask . |
| 12 | When Mrs Abigail answered the door he handed her the box , saying he believed it was her property . |
| 13 | Back into the cottage he showed her the way and gave her so |
| 14 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |
| 15 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 16 | After giving a short overview of the history of the line he showed us a selection of slides covering various aspects of the line . |
| 17 | So then at the end of that year he offered me a summer job , a kind of an apprentice job and that was it . |
| 18 | ‘ In April last year he gave her a letter to read . |
| 19 | When they finally parted company he gave her a kiss on the cheek . |
| 20 | You keep in the channel he say you the ground and that was the truth too . |
| 21 | In his speech he declared himself a runner . |
| 22 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 23 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 24 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 25 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 26 | But no , a quick consultation of the calendar , given to you so happily by the feed rep last Christmas ( at the same time he gave you a bill ) , shows lighting up time to be 18.52 . |
| 27 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 28 | When I went first he took one out there and he took it out clean , but this one here , in actual fact he gave me a stitch , and when the stitch was n't in you could see the tooth protruding a bit . |
| 29 | Yes Jane it has , as luck would have it I was late arriving , had to run through the rain , ran into the main stand and by pure accident ran into the Oxford United dressing room and there was Brian Horton , he said ‘ Hallo Mick , hows the poster Mickey ’ as he always does , and in fact he gave me the team news and that is — Ian Walker makes his senior debut tonight with both Alan injured , also two other changes ; Jackson comes in for Gary Smart and one surprising one , Steve McLaren for Mark Steen . |