Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 'E left me roastin' outside the gates while 'e went an' phoned the police , ’ Freddie moaned .
2 I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week .
3 He made me laugh like no one on earth has ever made me laugh .
4 Then he made me look at the windows .
5 He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own .
6 He made them sound like the Famous Five
7 He made them sound like the Famous Five .
8 He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities .
9 He made it sound like a fortune , this extra $1.25 , it was only because he liked Jed so much , he did n't know what had come over him , maybe he had a fever , an extra $1.25 , it was madness .
10 Crowing over it to Theo he made it sound like a breakthrough .
11 Somehow he made it sound like a valid excuse .
12 Time and again , he made it run through the sequence with him .
13 When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile .
14 Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter .
15 The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang .
16 He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise .
17 He asked me to sort through the files and see if I could come up with something to make life easier . ’
18 He asked me to bring over the wedding invitation …
19 He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden .
20 Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air .
21 It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun .
22 ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ .
23 He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet .
24 And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself .
25 He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead , the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated .
26 When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat .
27 He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear .
28 He found him sitting on a bunk , holding a bottle of milk in one hand and cup of gin in the other .
29 He let them trail on the ground .
30 And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him .
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