Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 2 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 5 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 6 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 9 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 10 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 11 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 12 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 13 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 14 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 15 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 16 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 17 | He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing . |
| 18 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 19 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 20 | He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself . |
| 21 | He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions . |
| 22 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 23 | Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it . |
| 24 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 25 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 26 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 27 | Back in the bedroom , he handed her the discarded nightshirt , his face carefully blank as Leonora scrambled into it , so unsteady on her feet that it was a relief to get back beneath the covers . |
| 28 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
| 29 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |
| 30 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |