Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 2 | He told Beverley the whole story of the stranger in the mist . |
| 3 | Several months later he told Theo the full dramatic story , ending sadly : ‘ Then , not at once , but very soon , I felt that love die within me . |
| 4 | He told Tony the Open was all his . |
| 5 | Back in the car he showed Ivy the black-and-white Polaroid photograph it contained . |
| 6 | ( When Leonard came to write his second novel , he paid MacLennan the finest compliment of all — and the riskiest — by imitating his theme , as we shall see . ) |
| 7 | He admired Frederick the Great , he told me , ‘ in a way , but only when he was very young . |
| 8 | So she said he 's got another one apparently he rung Charlie the other night and said this is Alex , can I speak to Brian . |
| 9 | He thrust Stevens the Kenyan dossier . |
| 10 | He awarded Rita the customary homecoming kiss . |
| 11 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |
| 12 | If we think of He sent a letter about it to Galileo the great Italian scientist as the target sentence , the kinds of changes which Sachs introduced when the sentence was repeated were either semantic — Galileo the great Italian scientist sent him a letter about it or syntactic — A letter about it was sent to Galileo the great Italian scientist / He sent Galileo the great Italian scientist a letter about it . |
| 13 | Throughout August and early September he was engaged in this process , with drafts going between Hayward and himself , until on 19 September he sent Hayward the final version . |
| 14 | McQueen , a genuine Highlander , kept the inn ( such as it was ) at Anoch and he brought Johnson the closest he had yet been to the controversies of the recent Stuart cause . |
| 15 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
| 16 | In a Christian society one can not avoid the memory of the cock that crowed to Simon Peter just as he denied Christ the third time . |
| 17 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 18 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 19 | He left Cambridge the following year , not having sat the mathematical tripos because of his delicate health , and became a barrister of the Inner Temple . |