Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to know what the job of a Euro MP is , well he is applying for a Euro seat , I do wish him the best of luck and when he 's been there |
| 2 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 4 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 5 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 6 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 7 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 8 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 9 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 10 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 11 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 12 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 13 | Johnny was surely the " Billy Bishop Canadian " of World War 2 : only the war ending when it did denied him the highest award . |
| 14 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 15 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |