Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 2 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 3 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 4 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |
| 5 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 6 | Though I wish you 'd given him a different name . |
| 7 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 8 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 9 | Major Robert Burrows had cancer , but Eva 's arrival seemed to give him a new lease of life . |
| 10 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 11 | No , she 'd left him a reassuring note . |
| 12 | Furiously she opened her bedroom door and , flicking the light on , went in , then turned to serve him a final volley before she slammed the door shut in his face . |
| 13 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 14 | Outside the front entrance of the House of Mattli Paula turned to give him a quick impulsive hug . |
| 15 | Hesitating , she risked giving him a haunted look . |
| 16 | The fact that he had very little free consecutive time for his own writing began to worry him a great deal , and he missed the familiar life of Kensington , with its public house and local shops . |
| 17 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 18 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 19 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 20 | Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ . |
| 21 | When Izzy Kleiber was punished for his treachery , they only meant to give him a cruel ducking and a bad fright ; no one had taken into account the heavy rains . |
| 22 | They met him and agreed to pay him an extra £10,300 at £575 per flat to ensure that he continued with the work and completed on time . |
| 23 | Tanner only reached the heights of number five in 1979 , the year that he lost to Bjorn Borg on Centre Court , but the quick-serving style that paved the way for today 's generation did earn him an Australian Open triumph in 1977 . |
| 24 | But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell . |
| 25 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 26 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 27 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough . |
| 29 | Likewise Jacob , his father , had given him a long robe with sleeves , for he ‘ loved Joseph more than any other of his children ’ ( Gen. 37:3 ) . |
| 30 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |