Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 2 | In reply I sent him a cutting from the catalogue of a well known UK mail order equipment company . |
| 3 | . Do you know that card you bought him the duck ? |
| 4 | One day , though , sitting in the counsellor 's sumptuous study she offered him a cheque instead of cash — and he replied with his customary charm and vigour , that she had to pay more if she paid by cheque . |
| 5 | He said that he 'd telephoned every gallery I gave him the name of . |
| 6 | If he has n't got a nice home you call him a layabout . ’ |
| 7 | He sort of was a bit you got him a bit could n't say . |
| 8 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 9 | When they reached the old farmhouse she handed him the fare , absent-mindedly giving him a tip that was at least treble the size she would normally have made , barely aware of his delighted grin as she made her way towards the kitchen |
| 10 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
| 11 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 12 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 13 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 14 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 15 | Behind his back they called him a " Jaune " — a " yellow " with its unmistakable implication of cowardice ; if feeling more tactful they called him an " Annamite " — but was n't that only in truth a man of China 's ancient colony , the " Pacified South " ? |
| 16 | Which helmet , oh the helmet I see him every morning driving to school . |
| 17 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 18 | At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres . |
| 19 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 20 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 21 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 22 | In the end she sent him a telegram to explain you know that she was pregnant with a another man . |
| 23 | Ah , in the end they fined him a lot of money , and they had him ca n't stop the public , you ca n't do that you ca n't . |
| 24 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 25 | While he was in school I gave him every chance I could to play before an audience , both in the school and in the local YMCA . |
| 26 | At the end of the year they give him the cash . |
| 27 | And the idea they gave him the Sammy Davis Jr Award just infuriates me . |
| 28 | To his surprise they offered him a job as music editor . |
| 29 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
| 30 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |