Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid .
2 He was on his bike six kids jumped him and said give us your bike they , they took his bike off him gave him a hammering right on the nose , broke his nose .
3 He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling .
4 It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party .
5 No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager .
6 He made me a monster , and in his own image , I guess ! ’
7 He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’
8 He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry .
9 When she stopped crying , he made her a potato man with matchsticks for legs .
10 He made her a cup of tea while she sorted the washing , closed up the cases and pushed them into the cupboard under the stairs .
11 He made it a requirement that the husband should not exercise such access in the presence of his mistress or her son without further order of the court .
12 He made it a statement rather than a question .
13 He made it a statement .
14 " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin .
15 He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’
16 In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him .
17 He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself .
18 For one thing , he made it a reproach that Anselm 's ‘ election ’ had been the work of schismatics — a charge which Anselm coldly denied .
19 By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
20 He pecked her a kiss .
21 He passed her a letter .
22 He passed her the phone .
23 He passed her the can .
24 Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick .
25 He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second .
26 He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket .
27 And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered .
28 He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel .
29 And he passed me a pistol .
30 He passed me a note that was propped behind a bottle of Long John .
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