Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second .
2 Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun .
3 He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre .
4 And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it .
5 er then he showed me the alarm and the he sho right he 's got file of everybody ai n't got one of us though .
6 Back into the cottage he showed her the way and gave her so
7 He handed her the glass and she drank
8 He poured Moselle for her , brushed fingers as he handed her the glass and looked into her eyes .
9 He handed me the tankard and said , ‘ I wo n't be a minute . ’
10 He handed me the cheque and looked at his watch .
11 Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent .
12 He gave her the name and address , and added , ‘ I 'd take him myself if I was free . ’
13 He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre .
14 He gave him the name and the number of the hotel in Buxton .
15 Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard .
16 He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there .
17 ‘ And then he gave us the will and the other papers and he said to us , just before we toddled off to Morocco — ’
  Next page