Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] a [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 | He asked them a few times . |
| 7 | While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yeah I only put in for three thousand , he got me a nine . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | He slanted her a quick look . |
| 12 | He slanted her a speculative glance . |
| 13 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 14 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 15 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 16 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 17 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He found her a chilly woman . |
| 20 | He found him a hard-working and honest man , if a little curt and tacit . |
| 21 | He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 25 | He drew me a small but accurate map . ’ |
| 26 | He drew me a little plan of how to get to W H Smiths and that . |
| 27 | He cast her a sidelong glance . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 30 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |