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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person .
2	and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way
3	Be having another now cos he read them the other day .
4	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 !
5	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 ? ’
6	Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue .
7	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 .
8	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 .
9	He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub
10	He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door .
11	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 .
12	He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated .
13	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 . ’
14	He told me , he told me the other night .
15	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 .
16	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 .
17	Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time .
18	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 .
19	He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself .
20	He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions .
21	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 .
22	Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina .
23	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 .
24	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 . ’
25	He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing .
26	‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’
27	so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that .
28	He returned them the next day , asking for a refund .
29	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 .
30	‘ 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 .