Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 3 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 4 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 5 | I should like , on their behalf , to thank him for all he has done and to wish him every success in his new appointment as Director General of the Electronic Components Industry Federation . |
| 6 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 7 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 8 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
| 9 | She turned and threw him a desperate look . |
| 10 | I turned and gave him a wave , ‘ Do n't wait up for me , I may be late . ’ |
| 11 | And I was walking away , and turned and gave him a great kick , you know , right in his balls , and I said , ‘ Come on then ’ , took a mad fit , you know , and I |
| 12 | Before disappearing through the brick arch she turned and gave him a final smile and a wave . |
| 13 | The first jog round the block got his heart racing and gave him an appetite . |
| 14 | The suggested starting point was that , if a lad is coming out of Deerbolt , Father Patrick lets his area youth worker know and gives him a contact address for the worker and they go from there . |
| 15 | Dared she stop and wish him a happy Christmas ? |
| 16 | Then I 'll decide whether to post him the last reels of film in a Jiffy bag or fly back to London with them myself . |
| 17 | She had been impressed by his knowledge and his observation and she loved and admired him a little more . |
| 18 | Meredith told him to stop moaning and ordered him a double portion of cake as a main course . |
| 19 | Stefan grunted and gave him a sharp look . |
| 20 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 21 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 22 | In the films he 'd sweep me into his arms and say , ‘ Thank God you 're safe , darling ! ’ and his uncle in the States would die and leave him a million dollars . |
| 23 | The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't suppose that makes him a potential killer but we need to find him . |
| 25 | So she went and gave him a hug . |
| 26 | Try and give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 27 | Mister Johnny looked at Nick ; then he laughed and gave him the skull . |
| 28 | We used to call and see him every day , often on our way to and from school , and so did our parents . |
| 29 | At this point one of his rich relations died and left him a lot of money in his will . |
| 30 | Why do n't you go and give him a surprise , actually pay your husband some attention for once , eh ? ’ |