Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] he [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he were thinking : Since we 're lumbered with this bore , let's throw him a predictable subject and hear his predictable views . |
| 2 | ‘ They should make him a national treasure , ’ said Ian Wright . |
| 3 | This must make him an ideal employer for Mrs Brocklebank whom he reckoned to be on the lazy side . |
| 4 | Rather than treating the foreign investor as a rival , we should consider him a valuable helper , for he increases our production and the efficiencies of our business . |
| 5 | First , the firm must not indicate that the customer would be a customer of a UK office and , if the customer is a private customer , must give him the prescribed disclosure warning him that all or most of the FSA protections will not apply . |
| 6 | Yer should give 'im a good talking to , if yer want my opinion . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That should give him a good laugh . ’ |
| 8 | Madam , I 'm gon na ask you to say in those circumstances that we should give him the maximum discharge . |
| 9 | That should take him a long time to . |
| 10 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 11 | Regardless of your personal feelings towards the Chairman , you must afford him the utmost respect in addressing him and obeying his rulings . |
| 12 | His witty daughter , who attends Gwladys Street Primary School in the shadow of Everton 's Goodison Park , says : ‘ I 'll buy him a nice present and we 'll have a little tea party for him . |
| 13 | In a hurry to find me and too tired to pay attention to detail , he might give him a cursory glance and exclaim , relieved , " Ah , there you are . " |
| 14 | Did you say he was in North Africa ? if we ca n't do anything about his legs we 'll give him a new head when he gets back . |
| 15 | He 'll give him a greater measure of liberty even so , if Harry 'll give his parole , but Harry 'll give him nothing short of a dagger . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll give him a good wash , and change his socks and shoes , ’ she said . |
| 17 | His kisses and cuddles soothed me , and I stopped crying when he said : ‘ He 's a bad dog , and I 'll give him a good hiding for that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll give him a massive jab of vitamin B , ’ said Phil when he 'd examined him , ‘ and some Buscopan . |
| 19 | Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over . |
| 20 | It 'll give him an interesting pixie look for the rest of his life . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll send him a bloody letter next , tomorrow , I 'll send him a bloody letter . |
| 22 | I 'll send him a bloody letter next , tomorrow , I 'll send him a bloody letter . |
| 23 | I 'll , I 'll drop him a wee note anyway . |
| 24 | " We might call him an old shellback , if you think that 'd go down better , instead of an Ancient Mariner . " |
| 25 | ‘ I thought , if I tell the driver I 'm a real archbishop and I 'll pay him the other end he 'll just say , ‘ Oh , stuff it , mate ! ' ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I hope you 'll charge him a proper fee next time . |
| 27 | And it went without saying that , if he was not prepared to take a risk with his money , he most certainly was not prepared to take a risk which might lose him the one person he could trust . |
| 28 | ‘ Hurley 's always stringing him along , saying he 'll get him a green card . |
| 29 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 30 | Bowe , they say , who does impressions of Stevie Wonder , Bill Cosby and Ronald Reagan that could earn him a different sort of starring role on the Vegas Strip , has yet to prove that he 's more than a clever impersonator of a heavyweight champion . |