Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 2 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 3 | He did n't want to know anything he wanted to drive the crane so he give me a start . |
| 4 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 5 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 6 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 7 | Some , however , did receive Him and believed in Him ; so he gave them the right to become God 's children . |
| 8 | Once he sent me a paperweight , the very paperweight which had sat on his desk . |
| 9 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 10 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 11 | Now he leaves again — like he leaves her every few months . |
| 12 | He kissed me again and went out of the room , saying he thought it would be a good idea if he got us a drink . |
| 13 | He treats his actors as equals , and if he ask you a question , it 's because he wants an answer — not because he 's testing you . ’ |
| 14 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 15 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 16 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 17 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 18 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 19 | You know , she 's sworn to me she would n't have a Russian if he offered her a thousand quid . |
| 20 | If he offered her the use of one of his typewriters , she was done for . |
| 21 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 22 | " What if he asks me a direct question ? " |
| 23 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
| 24 | If he gave me a shagging I tried my best to get me heel of my boot down on the stair , something of that kind . |
| 25 | seventeen thousand pounds if he gave them a free cup of coffee . |
| 26 | The local policeman took it in hand , and nobody grumbled , if he gave them a good clout . |
| 27 | Erm this has been prepared by Mr erm and perhaps it would be helpful if he gave you the flavour of it . |
| 28 | Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer . |
| 29 | If he feeds me the data he uncovers it might put us ahead in the game before the battle opens . ’ |
| 30 | Oh , her husband may chatter but I doubt if he gives her a blow by blow account of English activities in France . |