Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 2 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 3 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 4 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
| 5 | She let him suffer a bit longer , then said : ‘ You and Sabine had a row , I heard it . |
| 6 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 7 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 8 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 9 | The direction of his career , however , was finally determined by Sonia Orwell who helped him obtain a job with the World Bank in Washington . |
| 10 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 11 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 12 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 13 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 14 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 15 | Later , he found he shared an interest |
| 16 | I told him stealing a car would n't solve anything and he agreed to park the car . |
| 17 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 18 | I told him to take a miss on the instruction part . |
| 19 | ‘ I told him to take a break and have a rethink about the rest of the meeting . ’ |
| 20 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 21 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 22 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 23 | Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up , Bacon gave him £5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler 's . |
| 24 | He did n't understand what Miss Thorne meant when she told him to keep a gesture . |
| 25 | so I told him to buy a couple of pies and some biscuits while I went to phone someone . |
| 26 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 27 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 28 | Myeloski nudged Duncan and signalled him to watch a scene farther on , just by a small playground . |
| 29 | Anyway , I imagined him waving a wand , and the world came into existence . |
| 30 | Trent imagined him holding a golf club but the callus did n't fit . |