Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made him wash dishes . ’ ) . |
| 2 | My father knew I would n't do biology , but he made me do chemistry and only a small amount of mathematics . |
| 3 | He eased me into a role he had only half-consciously cast me for without my noticing it and , by emphasizing the physical attraction I had for him , he made me feel imperative . |
| 4 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 5 | He made one last check — as best he could — in the tiny shaving mirror in the bathroom and then left his apartment . |
| 6 | That he was so successful was not because his dancers were technical experts , but because he made them feel Rachmaninov 's passionate love of ‘ music as movement ’ . |
| 7 | And he put his sons to read , that they might be of the better understanding , and he made them take arms , and be shown how to demean themselves in battle , and to be huntsmen . |
| 8 | And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness . |
| 9 | He was dressed all in white , and his horse was white , and even his reins ; and as he passed it grew light . |
| 10 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 11 | He had the audacity to smile and Ruth squirmed frantically under him but he stilled her thrashing body with the weight of his own . |
| 12 | He was looking at Pike as if he expected him to change shape , to flower into some awful creature . |
| 13 | He expected me to ask questions but I carefully refrained from showing interest . |
| 14 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 15 | He asked them to make drawings , and compared these with the artwork kept by fond parents , which the subjects had produced when they really were six . |
| 16 | One of the psychiatrists I spoke to while preparing this book said that in his therapy groups for people with anxieties , he asked them to make lists of their day 's worries . |
| 17 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 18 | ‘ He asked me to check data on a recent employee . |
| 19 | ‘ Then he asked me to tell Ince he would definitely be playing in Spain . |
| 20 | Today , when he asked me to alter dialogue I 'd already learned once more — I refused . |
| 21 | That belongs to a man called now he owned he owned North now what does he own now ? |
| 22 | Always generous , he invited her to drink coffee in the evening and she never saw him drunk . |
| 23 | Once , in the lunch hour , he invited her to accompany Bunny and himself to church . |
| 24 | They chatted about their respective childhoods and , while Patrick had wanted for nothing , he found himself envying Jane 's childhood freedom as the daughter of a groom and maid in service in a large country house just outside London . |
| 25 | He found himself nudging St Ives in the ribs , man to man . |
| 26 | He found himself writing CREPI ? ? ? in block capitals on the pad in front of him . |
| 27 | He found himself wishing Alice were with them then , wishing it quite fiercely . |
| 28 | He was unaware of any high ‘ g ’ or , indeed , of anything at all , until he found himself regaining consciousness in a near vertical climb , about to tail slide . |
| 29 | His feet and his heart pounded faster and faster on the pavement and he found himself racing neck and neck with the tram as it approached the fare stage . |
| 30 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |