Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |
| 2 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 3 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 4 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 5 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 6 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |
| 7 | Though I wish you 'd given him a different name . |
| 8 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 9 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 10 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 11 | Major Robert Burrows had cancer , but Eva 's arrival seemed to give him a new lease of life . |
| 12 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 13 | No , she 'd left him a reassuring note . |
| 14 | Furiously she opened her bedroom door and , flicking the light on , went in , then turned to serve him a final volley before she slammed the door shut in his face . |
| 15 | Hesitating , she risked giving him a haunted look . |
| 16 | The fact that he had very little free consecutive time for his own writing began to worry him a great deal , and he missed the familiar life of Kensington , with its public house and local shops . |
| 17 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 18 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 21 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 22 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 23 | Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ . |
| 24 | When Izzy Kleiber was punished for his treachery , they only meant to give him a cruel ducking and a bad fright ; no one had taken into account the heavy rains . |
| 25 | But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell . |
| 26 | Johnny was surely the " Billy Bishop Canadian " of World War 2 : only the war ending when it did denied him the highest award . |
| 27 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 28 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 29 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 30 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |