Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 4 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 5 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 6 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |
| 7 | He asked them a few times . |
| 8 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 9 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 10 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 11 | He slanted her a quick look . |
| 12 | He slanted her a speculative glance . |
| 13 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 14 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 15 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 16 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 19 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |
| 22 | At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out . |
| 23 | He found her a chilly woman . |
| 24 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 25 | He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ . |
| 26 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 27 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 28 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |