Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 2 | It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party . |
| 3 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 4 | He made me a monster , and in his own image , I guess ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’ |
| 6 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 7 | When she stopped crying , he made her a potato man with matchsticks for legs . |
| 8 | He made her a cup of tea while she sorted the washing , closed up the cases and pushed them into the cupboard under the stairs . |
| 9 | He made it a requirement that the husband should not exercise such access in the presence of his mistress or her son without further order of the court . |
| 10 | He made it a statement rather than a question . |
| 11 | He made it a statement . |
| 12 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 13 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him . |
| 15 | He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself . |
| 16 | For one thing , he made it a reproach that Anselm 's ‘ election ’ had been the work of schismatics — a charge which Anselm coldly denied . |
| 17 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 18 | ‘ You realise he hates me every bit as much as he hates your father ? ’ |
| 19 | He pecked her a kiss . |
| 20 | He passed her a letter . |
| 21 | He passed her the phone . |
| 22 | He passed her the can . |
| 23 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 24 | He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second . |
| 25 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 26 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 27 | And he passed me a pistol . |
| 28 | He passed me a note that was propped behind a bottle of Long John . |
| 29 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 30 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |