Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
| 2 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 3 | His good looks and twinkling eyes may have won him female fans , but his 6ft 2½in frame and his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers also firmly marked him out as one of the boys . |
| 4 | Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place . |
| 5 | She had then wished him good luck with the sale of his book and had quietly shut the door in his face . |
| 6 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 7 | His baggy rambles about his day-to-day , metropolitan life , and his energetic use of his body in his joke-telling ( he calls it ‘ physicalising ’ , but then he did drama at university ) has earned him two appearances on Tonight With Jonathan Ross , about a million bookings per week on the London circuit , and a place in the hearts of audiences and promoters . |
| 8 | His intense and unpredictable moods have earned him many enemies throughout the Empire . |
| 9 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 10 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |
| 11 | Also , MacQuillan 's face was well known and it was inevitable that someone had noticed him that lunchtime . |
| 12 | Donar began the final the under dog — Wilkinson had defeated him three weeks in a row with relative ease . |
| 13 | He was n't married ; Charlie knew he was n't married ; knew moreover that his steady had chucked him two weeks before . |
| 14 | She should have known , Robbie thought wearily , her story had n't moved him one iota . |
| 15 | The spirit of Rogal Dorn must indeed have granted him supraphysical strength to wrestle with such weight as well as with his own . |
| 16 | Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election . |
| 17 | Tycho was a Protestant , beholden only to the king of Denmark , Frederick II , who had granted him free use of a small island to pursue his astronomical studies . |
| 18 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 19 | Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done . |
| 20 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 21 | La , like I 've done today I 've made him another jelly in it . |
| 22 | She had made him some breakfast about 7.30 . |
| 23 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 24 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 25 | They have n't seen him all day . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 27 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 28 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 29 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 30 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |