Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 2 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 4 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 5 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 6 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 7 | He slanted her a quick look . |
| 8 | He slanted her a speculative glance . |
| 9 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 10 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 11 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 12 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |
| 14 | At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out . |
| 15 | He found her a chilly woman . |
| 16 | He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ . |
| 17 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 18 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 19 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 20 | He drew me a little plan of how to get to W H Smiths and that . |
| 21 | He cast her a sidelong glance . |
| 22 | ‘ She may be itching for me to leave , but what with the heat and having to fight his corner — ’ he cast her a droll look ‘ — this weary traveller is on the point of dehydration . ’ |
| 23 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 24 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 25 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 26 | He told me a bleak story of life out there in the fax field . |
| 27 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 28 | Luke 's mouth pleasured while it dominated , and his hands roaming insolently about her body were creating havoc , the skilled , confident caresses to which he subjected her a bold proclamation of ownership . |
| 29 | When the Chilaw kachcheri queried a sale voucher counterfoil submitted by a headman , it was explained that the seller had branded the animal with his grandfather 's name , Nicholas , because he believed it a lucky name in cattle breeding . |
| 30 | Two days later he granted me a private audience , a remarkable consideration during those eventful days to his youngest and least important guest . |