Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He offers us a practical young man who , unprepared for such a challenge , faces it boldly , controlling moments of doubt simply because there is so much to be done that there is no time for introspection . |
| 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 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 11 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 12 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 13 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 14 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 15 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | He found him a hard-working and honest man , if a little curt and tacit . |
| 22 | He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 26 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He owes me a grand ! |
| 29 | He owes us a fucking million quid , do n't he ? |
| 30 | He drew me a small but accurate map . ’ |