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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person .
2	He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately .
3	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
4	Be having another now cos he read them the other day .
5	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 !
6	Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones .
7	Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’
8	Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue .
9	And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said .
10	he has he the same problems that we 've all had you know erm and yes he 's , he 's , he 's very easy to listen to despite the fact that he 's a southerner .
11	He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub
12	He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door .
13	At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life .
14	He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated .
15	He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’
16	He told me , he told me the other night .
17	I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy .
18	That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place .
19	Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time .
20	Could he give her the best of food or pay for a doctor if she fell sick or buy her fine clothes or anythin' she fancies ?
21	He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows .
22	He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length .
23	He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing .
24	He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance .
25	He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again .
26	He showed them the careful lay-out of the hospital planned by Miss Nightingale herself .
27	He showed them the huge chest , far too heavy to lift , with the silver cups and plates for special occasions .
28	If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted .
29	Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it .
30	He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill .