Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
| 2 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 3 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 4 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 5 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 6 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 7 | He let you run this place like a fucking doll 's house 'cause he loved you . |
| 8 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 9 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 10 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 11 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 12 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 13 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 14 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 15 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 16 | He taught her to make easy corn dollies . |
| 17 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 18 | He urged everyone to report suspicious behaviour . |
| 19 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 20 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 21 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 22 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 23 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 24 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 25 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 26 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 27 | Everywhere he went he smelled fresh blood , and was exhilarated . |
| 28 | He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come . |
| 29 | He felt he needed more brandy , but the glass was nearly empty and the bottle was in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |