Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Now that you know that it 's Luke , that he sent you the letter , what are you going to do ? ’ |
| 3 | I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year . |
| 4 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 5 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 6 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 7 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 8 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 9 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 10 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 11 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 12 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 13 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 14 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 15 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 16 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 17 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 18 | I sat up and he gave me the handkerchief out of his pyjama pocket . |
| 19 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 20 | I smiled at him , and he gave me the trace of a wary smile back . |
| 21 | And he gave her the kiss she was waiting for . |
| 22 | Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become |
| 23 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 24 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 25 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
| 26 | Been in the ground more than two hundred years , Dr. Mac said , and he showed me the crack — just like a cracked cup — where his skull had been bashed in . |
| 27 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 28 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 29 | Here — ’ And he handed her the lamp , which had been designed to be portable . |
| 30 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |