Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 2 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 3 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 4 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 5 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 6 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 7 | I am sure that he has recorded what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 8 | ‘ He has taught me a great deal about the business , ’ Alice proffered , ‘ and I know he is totally loyal to the Maison de Verveine . |
| 9 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |
| 10 | ‘ He has given himself a hard race , ’ said Josh Gifford , but if he recovers quickly the seven-year-old will go for the H and T Walker Chase at Ascot next weekend . |
| 11 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 12 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 13 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 14 | He has read what the care-worn pebbles say , and he does n't like it . |
| 15 | He needs to know what a ghastly little prick the boy was . |
| 16 | He needs to get himself a proper economics team independent of the accident-prone Treasury establishment . |
| 17 | He promised to send me a fucking picture postcard . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had a devil of a job tracking you down , ’ he said after he 'd given her a big hug . |
| 19 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 20 | He had very deliberately told her to get lost , and when she did n't take the hint , he 'd sent her an obscene note . |
| 21 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 22 | It was as if , in not knowing , he 'd paid her a great compliment . |
| 23 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 24 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 25 | They will probably keep on asking , as long as he avoids giving them a clear answer . |
| 26 | Why could n't he have given her a different choice , one that did n't involve old loyalties ? |
| 27 | He decided to do her a pastel sketch of himself having sex with Viola . |
| 28 | He managed to get himself a special bed at Bedford Institution on pretence of sickness , which proved quite unfounded . |
| 29 | He meant to give her an emphatic no , but the word was never uttered . |
| 30 | think what he wants to do is he wanted to sell us a new one |