Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes . |
| 6 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |
| 11 | As he pulled back the perspex canopy he permitted himself a small smile at Stallen , whom he knew . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
| 15 | And every year he brings me a red rose and a note with the words written : Rudolf — Flavia — always . |
| 16 | No doubt he thought himself a national marvel . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | This time he gave her a genuine smile . |