Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic .
2 ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care .
3 He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee .
4 Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances .
5 He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work .
6 At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered .
7 ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new .
8 Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days .
9 This he did , and when he had learned to ride it he realized what a radical improvement it would be if he could propel it without putting his feet on the ground .
10 I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me .
11 He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately .
12 He slanted her a quick look .
13 He slanted her a speculative glance .
14 He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’
15 The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look .
16 He flung her a furious look .
17 Be having another now cos he read them the other day .
18 He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background .
19 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 !
20 ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked .
21 At that time , he had offered to give her more extensive treatments — apparently , he found her a promising subject but she had n't had the cold kish to lay out .
22 He found her a chilly woman .
23 The Collector 's chivalry was aroused by Miriam 's weakness , for the heart of a gentleman still beat beneath his ragged morning coat ; besides , he found her an attractive young woman in spite of everything , for she could still smile as sweetly as ever .
24 He found him a hard-working and honest man , if a little curt and tacit .
25 He found him a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity ; ‘ like a merry rollicking schoolboy ’ .
26 He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike .
27 So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral .
28 Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta .
29 He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours .
30 But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames .
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