Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he agreed to give her the camera , show her how to use it ; he 'd make sure the family were out the afternoon she came round to get the film developed . |
| 2 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 3 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 4 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 5 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 6 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 7 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 8 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 9 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 10 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 11 | He reminded her of the day he 'd given her the locket and ring . ’ |
| 12 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 13 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 14 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 15 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 16 | I said ’ Oh yes ’ and I saw the and he 'd kept the collar on , and of course he 'd given me the one that tossed his head up did n't he ! |
| 17 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 18 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 19 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 20 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 21 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 22 | And he , of course he 'd taken them the day before . |
| 23 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 24 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 25 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 26 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 27 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 28 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 29 | I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were . |
| 30 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |