Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 2 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 3 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 4 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 5 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 6 | He promised to send me a fucking picture postcard . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had a devil of a job tracking you down , ’ he said after he 'd given her a big hug . |
| 8 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 9 | He had very deliberately told her to get lost , and when she did n't take the hint , he 'd sent her an obscene note . |
| 10 | It was as if , in not knowing , he 'd paid her a great compliment . |
| 11 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 12 | He decided to do her a pastel sketch of himself having sex with Viola . |
| 13 | He managed to get himself a special bed at Bedford Institution on pretence of sickness , which proved quite unfounded . |
| 14 | He meant to give her an emphatic no , but the word was never uttered . |
| 15 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 16 | He had kissed her a second time . |
| 17 | Well , he had taught them a swift , certain lesson : that no ten hired lackeys of the Emperor Karl Franz were a match for a single noble son of Bretonnia . |
| 18 | On previous occasions he had given me a Tibetan prayer-wheel and a monastery bell which I still cherish . |
| 19 | But even if he had given me a direct answer , I do n't know that I would have believed him . |
| 20 | On his return , he had given her a gold-coloured owl and told her he was in love with her . |
| 21 | I 'd like that , ’ she said , feeling as if he had given her a priceless gift . |
| 22 | Meg remembered , shuddered with the memory ; the whole deal : he had given her a just beating , then pissed all over her . |
| 23 | I rather think that he still lives in and as Marg said coyly to me one year , he had given her a lovely little candle in a special little bowl with , with water |
| 24 | They said Farrow gave him the Valentine with ‘ a gentle , almost kindly ’ glance after he had given her an embroidered heart and a red satin box of chocolates . |
| 25 | Gradually he and Cora-Beth had grown close again until suddenly , at Christmas , he had realized what an indispensable friend and companion she was . |
| 26 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 27 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 28 | He had lent him a chauffeur-driven car and expensive office equipment during the General Election . |
| 29 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 30 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |