Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 2 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 3 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 4 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 5 | Antonio fished in his back pocket and handed him a card . |
| 6 | And she put it before Gabriel on a wooden plate and gave him a wooden cup full of water . |
| 7 | Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ? |
| 8 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 9 | ‘ At the time we were very short on quick bowling , and decided to take a real gamble and offer him a place on our staff . |
| 10 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 11 | The captain followed the direction of the American boy 's pointing finger for a moment , then lifted his left wrist and showed him the dial of his watch . |
| 12 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 13 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 14 | He forgets I can lean forward in this great chair and give him a good whack across the shoulders . |
| 15 | The council reinstated Tengiz Sigua ( who had resigned in August 1991 when Gamsakhurdia dismissed other senior ministers — see p. 38417 ) as acting Prime Minister and gave him the responsibility of forming a cabinet , which would assume power temporarily once the situation in the country had stabilized . |
| 16 | Knocker re-filled Sooty 's mug with rough cider and gave him a disapproving look at the same time . |
| 17 | I patted Armstrong 's stubbly radiator and promised him a good clean-out . |
| 18 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 19 | It was a glittering prospect and gave him the courage to brush his hand against Eloise 's breast as he kissed her goodbye . |
| 20 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 21 | cheeky so-and-so and to give him an audition and see what he was like — which I did — and was quite impressed . |
| 22 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 23 | I 'll have to wait until Bluebeard 's in a mellow mood and tell him the truth . |
| 24 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 25 | She leaned out of her front bay-window and gave him a shout . |
| 26 | A great looker , and he may have shown his admiration because she had ducked her dark head in mock embarrassment and given him the slowest smile as she had moved away . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway the woman in the bus saw his picture in this evening 's paper , told the local bobby and gave him the boy 's uncle 's address which the lad had passed on to her the previous evening . |