Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] he [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 William Temple got him an honouring invitation , as a delegate to the vast ecumenical conference at Edinburgh in 1937 .
2 His cheesecutter hat and Burberry overcoat gave him the look of a working class spiv .
3 KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar .
4 Bedale magistrates fined him a total of £200 with £127 costs .
5 Maggie May gave him a hand-job .
6 For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion .
7 Colin 's father Brian , 50 , sent his son programmes for every home game , while Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven sent him a video tape and got all the team to autograph a football shirt for him .
8 ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford to win him the title last season .
9 Aunt Margaret gave him a toffee .
10 He believed Orkney Islands Council found him an annoyance .
11 Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge .
12 He was given the chance to show his skills on four wheels when Alfa Romeo gave him a trial , but he crashed one of their cars at Monza and was badly injured .
13 He paid his rent , and Mr Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to look after him .
14 ‘ It 's not my fault , ’ wailed Felix , as Mr Patel struck him a blow to the shin .
15 Mr Hellyer gave him every assistance and afterwards went thankfully down to the pub for a few beers .
16 When Baldwin returned to London , Tom Jones showed him an article in the Political Quarterly , suggesting that the new Monarch should mix with a wider range of people .
17 Mr Slater sent him a copy of the application .
18 While the Premier had fun in the sun , Labour 's Mr Brown bowled him a bumper by accusing him of REFUSING to act and REFUSING to speak .
19 The deceased , while Mr. Smith was , fortuitously and temporarily , out of the room , asked Mr. Morgan to hand him a piece of paper .
20 But no matter how much he twisted and turned , the Liverpool dynamo gave him no rest .
21 JE : It 's interesting that you should mention Rosenkavalier in this context , because while Britten was in hospital with measles , during the period when he was writing Grimes , Ralph Hawkes sent him a score of Rosenkavalier .
22 Judge Geoffrey Vos fined him a total of £610 .
23 Derek Ferguson gave him the ball and the striker swung in a low cross which invited a diving header .
24 Don Edmonds shot him a warning glance .
25 Leonard Smithers paid him a salary for producing translations .
26 Instead Westminster Bank made him a junior at its Darlington branch : ‘ I did all the jobs from making the tea to fetching the ledgers from the safe . ’
27 In 1944 Adolf Hitler awarded him the cross of war merit , first class .
28 In the same way , when Conrad Aiken sent him a copy of Ushant in which he described two incidents which displayed a streak of sadism " in Eliot 's nature , Eliot denied any recollection of such events .
29 Bob Newman offered him a lift but he would n't accept it , he said he would get the bus .
30 Not that he was remote from the Council 's concerns ; his long-standing dialogue with Karl Barth makes him no exception to the keen and growing ecumenical awareness that characterizes almost all Catholic theological writing since the 1960s .
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