Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers them another unsettling peacemaking idea ; they invent another excuse for turning it down . |
| 2 | He got her fucking fag stuck in her window . |
| 3 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 4 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 5 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 6 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 7 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 8 | He telephoned me one evening to tell me that the Labour Party had decided to use an extract from it in their manifesto . |
| 9 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 10 | He checks it each morning to see whether it is going to rain . |
| 11 | Towards the end of spring , he saw him earlier than usual , and he saw him several times standing close beside the crossing gates on the up side , his face almost pressing between the bars . |
| 12 | He offered me ten-thousand dollars to find you for him . |
| 13 | He gives us that space to grow into the maturity he wants from each of us : freedom to think , freedom to pray in our own way , freedom to worship according to our temperament and inclination . |
| 14 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 15 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 16 | He gave me some answers to give you about your questions yesterday evening . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , he gave us five targets to achieve by the one that we had this year . |
| 18 | So he had them both ways did n't he ? |
| 19 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 20 | He is old and when he dies he selfish son inherits the land . |