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

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1	Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick .
2	He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic .
3	‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care .
4	‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new .
5	Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days .
6	I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me .
7	He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately .
8	He slanted her a quick look .
9	He slanted her a speculative glance .
10	He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’
11	The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look .
12	He flung her a furious look .
13	Be having another now cos he read them the other day .
14	But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century !
15	‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked .
16	At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out .
17	He found her a chilly woman .
18	The Collector 's chivalry was aroused by Miriam 's weakness , for the heart of a gentleman still beat beneath his ragged morning coat ; besides , he found her an attractive young woman in spite of everything , for she could still smile as sweetly as ever .
19	He found him a hard-working and honest man , if a little curt and tacit .
20	He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ .
21	He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike .
22	So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral .
23	Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta .
24	He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours .
25	But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames .
26	He drew me a small but accurate map . ’
27	He drew me a little plan of how to get to W H Smiths and that .
28	And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said .
29	He cast her a sidelong glance .
30	‘ She may be itching for me to leave , but what with the heat and having to fight his corner — ’ he cast her a droll look ‘ — this weary traveller is on the point of dehydration . ’