Example sentences of "[verb] he [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shultz had put his arm round him at a party and told him what a remarkable job he had done , keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive : ‘ I knew what he meant . |
| 2 | She told him what the old lady had said . |
| 3 | He was overjoyed when Alan showed him his plans , and told him what the different symbols meant , so that the lines on the paper became a living world of houses , roads and trees . |
| 4 | ‘ It was rather touching that when I told him who the other members of the cast were — Ian Richardson , Zena Walker and Freddie Jones — he said : ‘ Do they know who it is who 's playing the character ? ’ |
| 5 | Did n't we give him one a few years ago ? ’ |
| 6 | His own terrible fear and anger had communicated itself to his father and shown him what the better part of valour was : keeping silent . |
| 7 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 8 | If we command our dog to sit and he responds , we then pat him and tell him what a good boy he is . |
| 9 | So aware of the ‘ internationalism of art ’ ( he told the story himself ) that when a journalist asked him who the great French artists were , he replied : ‘ Why , Picasso , Modigliani , Lipchitz , Stravinsky ’ — a Spaniard , an Italian and two Russians . |
| 10 | If he will be quiet I shall tell him what the Labour party proposes to do . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall go and tell 'im what a perfect swine he is . ’ |
| 12 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 13 | We are reverent and grateful to God , showing him what the Old Testament frequently calls , ‘ the fear of the Lord ’ . |
| 14 | He kept telling him what a marvellous job he was doing . |
| 15 | She avoided telling him what an out-and-out swine she thought his cousin was , adding quickly , ‘ What makes you think he 's serious ? ’ |
| 16 | He broke off , and looked suddenly so exhausted and worn that Leith just did n't have the heart to tell him what an offensive brute his cousin had been . |