Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 4 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 5 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 6 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This he did , and when he had learned to ride it he realized what a radical improvement it would be if he could propel it without putting his feet on the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He slanted her a quick look . |
| 11 | He slanted her a speculative glance . |
| 12 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 13 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 14 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 15 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 16 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 17 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 18 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 19 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He found her a chilly woman . |
| 22 | He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 26 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 27 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 28 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 29 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 30 | He drew me a little plan of how to get to W H Smiths and that . |