Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun prp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to him gave Jane the idea ( obvious , as most good ideas seem , once they 're thought of ) of producing a guide to the firm 's products , loose-leaf for updating , to be distributed to doctors and clinics . |
| 2 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 3 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 4 | Rose said softly , ‘ I think he made Steve an accomplice . ’ |
| 5 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 6 | ‘ Parkin will say he lent Nicola the scissors and there was some accident . |
| 7 | He passed Edouard a silver box in which cigarettes of kif mixed with tobacco were ready-rolled . |
| 8 | He passed Rex a styrofoam carton labelled Old Shep Bar-B-Q . |
| 9 | ‘ Any chance of a belt of Shochaiku Double-Blend , Magda ? ’ he asked Mrs ze Schluderpacheru . |
| 10 | After Monsieur Klein 's death he asked Fernand a lot of stupid questions , just because of some village gossip . ’ |
| 11 | In the end , he got Shrimpton the job , and that shoot was one of the assignments that launched her career . |
| 12 | ‘ He phoned Ursula the day Maurice 's murder was . |
| 13 | But Eliot , of whom he made some absurd insinuations , imputing plagiarism , told me later on that he found Belgion an exceedingly tiresome man to deal with . |
| 14 | Under the bonnet he found Sparky the cat scrambling across the battery . |
| 15 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 16 | He commented then , what he was to say in print later , that while he found Maritain a most charming man , his philosophical work , though claiming to reflect at every point Thomist orthodoxy , was in spirit quite unlike that of St Thomas : by which I presume he meant that Maritain had converted Thomas Aquinas into a French intellectual . |
| 17 | For instance , Lord Mountbatten , who was First Sea Lord at the time , records that he found Sandys a good listener . |
| 18 | As Dickon pushed the wheelchair all round the garden , he told Colin the names of all the plants . |
| 19 | He told Beverley the whole story of the stranger in the mist . |
| 20 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 21 | Several months later he told Theo the full dramatic story , ending sadly : ‘ Then , not at once , but very soon , I felt that love die within me . |
| 22 | He told Tony the Open was all his . |
| 23 | He noticed Schellenberg the moment he entered , not because he recognized him , only the kind of man he was . |
| 24 | The honour of being the first Hearts player to captain Scotland since Dave Mackay in the Fifties was tarnished for Craig Levein when he gifted Germany the opening goal of the game after 19 minutes . |
| 25 | Back in the car he showed Ivy the black-and-white Polaroid photograph it contained . |
| 26 | He showed Vincent a whole lot of his own studies , and told his eager listener that he ought to start painting soon . |
| 27 | He showed Gabriel the envelope containing the valentine . |
| 28 | More than all that , though , he showed Richard the way . |
| 29 | Here he showed Anselm the pope 's letter to the king which he had obtained after Anselm 's departure . |
| 30 | He showed Wednesday a few of his favourites , including the old workshop , the small room with the cutlery stuck into the walls and the one he had discovered the week before with a huge oak tree growing through the floor . |