Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 2 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 3 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 4 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
| 5 | Downstairs , he made me sit on his knee . |
| 6 | He made me laugh like no one on earth has ever made me laugh . |
| 7 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
| 8 | He made me work with all his might |
| 9 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 10 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 11 | He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled . |
| 12 | He made one point with which I was in complete agreement — that to date there had been no positive selling of the merits or advantages of this treaty by its principal proponents . |
| 13 | He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own . |
| 14 | Back in the room , he made her kneel before him , as he sat on the upright chair . |
| 15 | Every evening he made her sit with him and ordered her to say to him , ‘ You are very handsome , my lord . ’ |
| 16 | He made her come with him onto the end of the staging down which Jotan and Arkhina had already disappeared . |
| 17 | ( Later ) They wanted to give Lenin tea and to treat him to speeches of welcome , but he made them talk about tactics . |
| 18 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 19 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 20 | He made himself levitate over the capital . |
| 21 | He made himself stare into the eyes in which , to his discomfort , he saw more pain than anger . |
| 22 | Gerrard came back to the dais and held his hands up for silence , and though there was still a good deal of noise he made himself heard above it . |
| 23 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 24 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 25 | I said to old Tip , ‘ That 's Arnold over there , ’ and he made himself known to him . |
| 26 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 27 | He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities . |
| 28 | he made it sound as if this was a perfectly sound reason for his dangerous and criminal behaviour . |
| 29 | He made it sound as if there would never be any escape . |
| 30 | He made it sound as if she was indeed gifted with something indefinable . |