Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’ |
| 2 | When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope . |
| 3 | He got him an office towel for the washroom . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He found it an impossible spectacle to watch , and walked up and down the corridor for nearly two hours . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His finger was fast on the dial pad , his blue gaze unwavering as he lifted the phone to his ear , as he cast her an oblique glance . |
| 8 | ‘ There seemed to be some doubt in your mind about my exact gender , ’ Maggie put in drily , and he cast her an irritated look , his dark eyes running over her again as she sat facing him , her hands in the pockets of the loose shirt . |
| 9 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 10 | ‘ He granted you an interview ? ’ |
| 11 | He showed me an underwater grotto , a light-shafted nave of pale-blue shadows , where the large wrasse floated as if in a trance . |
| 12 | He graded it an unlikely E7 6c — unlikely in that it is , in all probability , much harder . |
| 13 | He threw her an angry look over his shoulder . |
| 14 | " They talked for a few moments , and then he handed her an envelope and walked away . |
| 15 | He handed me an eyepiece attached to a long lead and there , through a series of prisms , were my lower intestines in glorious technicolour . |
| 16 | He handed me an ouzo . |
| 17 | How dared he called her an arrogant bitch ? |
| 18 | ‘ I reckon Hatton was right when he called you an old woman , Cullam . ’ |
| 19 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 20 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 21 | He was supposed to take the advice of Archbishop Lang of Canterbury but he distrusted everything Lang said because he thought him an appeaser of Hitler . |
| 22 | Even as Felix drifted into sleep he thought it an evil omen . |
| 23 | First , he thought it an unspoken part of the 1931 bargain that MacDonald should not be discarded as soon as the immediate crisis was over . |
| 24 | He sent her an enquiring glance . |
| 25 | For several moments he made no reply , then he sent her an enquiring glance as he said , ‘ May I ask a favour ? ’ |
| 26 | And he brought me an American train , complete with a cowcatcher and a figure-eight track . |
| 27 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 28 | He gave her an estate at Alva as a dowry and probably accompanied it with a large sum of money . |
| 29 | He gave her an admiring grin that was very reminiscent of the senator 's beguiling charm . |
| 30 | And my sister told me that she met with him after Mass this morning and he gave her an envelope . " |