Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me all wet . |
| 2 | ‘ He made it all simple , ’ said Dick . |
| 3 | He made us some fine sets of playing cards and a neat Monopoly board . |
| 4 | Not that he plays them all that well , ’ he admitted , thoughtfully watching the harried youngster trying to be as tall as his tallest and most formidable charge . |
| 5 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 6 | He had to apologise about that young girl Carly because he got it all wrong . |
| 7 | But the only noise he could hear coming from the barn was the men 's loud and regular breathing , and when he entered , he found them all asleep , including Troy . |
| 8 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 9 | I got on bus here and he charged me thirty five P ! |
| 10 | and he charged him five hundred to jig it all straight , put the new panels and , and spray it all . |
| 11 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 12 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 13 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 14 | He told me that same as you . |
| 15 | He told me all that very carefully . ’ |
| 16 | He told me all this in his house , in a beautiful room . |
| 17 | ‘ He told me some extraordinary facts . |
| 18 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 19 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 20 | I waited patiently while he told me forty different ways to get there . |
| 21 | Well he told you twenty four hours did n't he ? |
| 22 | He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station . |
| 23 | I do n't want him to give me a job , but will he give me one thousand pounds out of money that 's really mine ? ’ |
| 24 | I 've no idea , in fact last year , did he give you some last year ? |
| 25 | ‘ Did he give you any other advice ? ’ |
| 26 | I mean , why did he give us all these flowers ? ’ |
| 27 | He drove us all crazy , says fellow ex-hostage |
| 28 | He advised me that normal meningitis , the kind that affects young kids , is much worse . |
| 29 | He painted them both five or six years before he died . ’ |
| 30 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |