Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 2 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 3 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 4 | The old man asked about her job ; in exchange he told her a little about himself . |
| 5 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 6 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 9 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 10 | Then looking at him again she said , ‘ He sometimes had a walking stick , and … and on that day he bought me a parasol . ’ |
| 11 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 12 | On that occasion he sent her a bouquet of flowers , from ‘ Fred ’ to ‘ Gladys ’ . |
| 13 | After a while he offered her a cigarette . |
| 14 | After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes . |
| 15 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
| 16 | Well at any rate he gave me a ring about erm sometime about four o'clock I think . |
| 17 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 18 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 19 | Absolutely I was aware that Graham was very anxious to be involved in this process , er for example he wrote me a note and I think other members and it 's because of those , of those notes that I was anxious that we should inform them of what we were up to and if you want to share any of the papers or agendas please ask . |
| 20 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 21 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |
| 22 | As he pulled back the perspex canopy he permitted himself a small smile at Stallen , whom he knew . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 25 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 26 | In the teaching controversy he declared himself a strong advocate of at least fingerspelling and stressed the importance of training , knowledge of deaf people and experience of teaching in deaf schools as primary qualifications for teachers . |
| 27 | After giving a short overview of the history of the line he showed us a selection of slides covering various aspects of the line . |
| 28 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
| 29 | So then at the end of that year he offered me a summer job , a kind of an apprentice job and that was it . |
| 30 | ‘ In April last year he gave her a letter to read . |