Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea . |
| 2 | I do n't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins , either . |
| 3 | But he made it clear Britain would fight its corner . |
| 4 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
| 5 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
| 6 | He got her fucking fag stuck in her window . |
| 7 | also managed to gain access to yet another computer , he got her ex-directory telephone number . |
| 8 | ‘ He got it wrong Wigs by Clarkson as if it mattered . |
| 9 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 10 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 11 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 12 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 13 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 14 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 15 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 16 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 17 | ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’ |
| 18 | She went out all dressed up and he drove her blue car . |
| 19 | Not only did the King fail to punish him , he granted him additional revenues , and in 1703 elevated him to Earl of Stair . |
| 20 | President Borja ended months of hostility between the government and the Quechua , Achuar and Shiwiar tribes , representing 148 communities and an estimated 20,000 indigenous people , when on May 13 he granted them legal title to more than 3,000,000 acres of homelands in the eastern province of Pastaza . |
| 21 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 22 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
| 23 | Whether he thought it would be more unnerving than a show of rage or whether he imagined he owed me civil consideration , I was uncertain . |
| 24 | There was silence for a moment , and then Millie lifted her head as she said , ‘ He … he called me funny name . |
| 25 | He called them white inseficus full of dead mens ' bones , but looking nice on the outside . |
| 26 | He heard me crying about you , and he called you rude names . |
| 27 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
| 28 | He had a daughter my age called Zoe and he sent me illustrated books of Australian flowers and bird-life . |
| 29 | From time to time he brought them small presents of coffee and sugar , although he was always slightly shy and embarrassed about giving them . |
| 30 | he gave me poor result . |