Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 5 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 6 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 7 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 8 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 9 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 10 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 11 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 12 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 13 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 14 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 15 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 16 | He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself . |
| 17 | He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions . |
| 18 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 19 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 20 | Back in the bedroom , he handed her the discarded nightshirt , his face carefully blank as Leonora scrambled into it , so unsteady on her feet that it was a relief to get back beneath the covers . |
| 21 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |
| 22 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 23 | He returned them the next day , asking for a refund . |
| 24 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 25 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 26 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 27 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 28 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 29 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 30 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |