Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] he the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 2 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 3 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 4 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 5 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 6 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 7 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 8 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 9 | When Anthony arrived spent and ill-looking from the hospital later that evening , Julia handed him the thin yellow sheet and was relieved to see a lightening in his dark grey eyes and a faint smile on his thin lips . |
| 10 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 11 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 12 | Jessamyn handed him the still-smoking gun . |
| 13 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 14 | Lorna gave him the intense , twinkling smile that had once agitated the hormones of millions in This Girl 's Army . |
| 15 | Celia told him the little she knew . |
| 16 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 17 | On the occasion of its 30th anniversary , the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia awarded him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science ; and this month at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science he is to receive an Honorary DSc from the University of Wales . |
| 18 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 19 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 20 | Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come . |
| 21 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 22 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 23 | Athelstan showed him the forlorn , shallow holes in the ground , the mud piled high on either side as if some demented creature had clawed the corpses out . |
| 24 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 25 | Talbot handed him the two messages . |
| 26 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 27 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 28 | Gina gave him the unstinted praise he deserved . |
| 29 | Barcelona gave him the perfect chance to retaliate . |
| 30 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |