Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside .
2 By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
3 He passed her the phone .
4 He passed her the can .
5 Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick .
6 He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second .
7 He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket .
8 And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered .
9 Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun .
10 He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’
11 Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave .
12 Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks .
13 He sold me the caravan .
14 I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way .
15 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
16 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
17 As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic .
18 ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his .
19 Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm .
20 I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words
21 He promised me the ricks would be covered , and he has n't done it !
22 From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises .
23 One incident that has stuck with me was when he played us the Queen of the Night 's aria from The Magic Flute , telling us that it was notoriously difficult for singers as the top note reached ‘ F in alt ’ .
24 He told her the others and she tried to memorize them , the positions and the titles .
25 He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea .
26 When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty .
27 If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him .
28 Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs .
29 He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre .
30 He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell .
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