Example sentences of "[art] [noun] he [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 2 | I had offended him , and the look he gave me was positively frightening . |
| 3 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 4 | the look he gave me and jumped out as quick as anything , I thought |
| 5 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |
| 6 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 7 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 8 | Look , here is the drawing he gave me : see how fine it is , how accurate , how personal … |
| 9 | ‘ At the end of the interview he accused me of trying to stir up trouble , refused to shake my hand and stormed off . |
| 10 | As I approached the jeep he recognised me . |
| 11 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 12 | I 'm not the fool he took me for ! ’ |
| 13 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 14 | ‘ And the promises he made me , Father , when he asked me to marry him , ’ she complained to Father Michael . |
| 15 | I want his life to have begun the moment he met me , as he wants mine to have begun , simultaneously . |
| 16 | When I went to the linesman he told me to clear off . |
| 17 | He put it all into practice with The Clash When he got Joe Strummer into The Clash he asked me what I thought of him . |
| 18 | He arrived at my home and in the course of the evening he buttonholed me . |
| 19 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 21 | But the place he took me to after lunch , the Colegio Ponce de Leon , where I was supposed to have rooms , was a rather stark student hostel , and my little room was very small , with just a narrow bed , a table and a chair . |
| 22 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 23 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 24 | The knowledge he gave me . |
| 25 | From his expression I see he has no idea the jolt he gave me . |
| 26 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 27 | I offered a taxi into town but he preferred to walk to the exhibition he wanted me to see in Na Příkopě , near the centre . |
| 28 | And the names he called me turned the air blue ! |
| 29 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 30 | The address he gave me was of a nursing home in Kent . |