Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 2 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 14 | He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself . |
| 15 | He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 23 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 24 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 25 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 26 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 27 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 28 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |
| 29 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 30 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |