Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person .
2 He made me a monster , and in his own image , I guess ! ’
3 He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling .
4 He made me a much better player and he must go down as one of Dalglish 's best signings . ’
5 ‘ 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 .
6 It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party .
7 No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager .
8 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 .
9 He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’
10 He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry .
11 He made her a cup of tea while she sorted the washing , closed up the cases and pushed them into the cupboard under the stairs .
12 When she stopped crying , he made her a potato man with matchsticks for legs .
13 He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’
14 He made it a statement rather than a question .
15 For one thing , he made it a reproach that Anselm 's ‘ election ’ had been the work of schismatics — a charge which Anselm coldly denied .
16 He made it a requirement that the husband should not exercise such access in the presence of his mistress or her son without further order of the court .
17 " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin .
18 He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself .
19 In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him .
20 He made it a statement .
21 By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
22 ‘ You realise he hates me every bit as much as he hates your father ? ’
23 He pecked her a kiss .
24 He passed her a letter .
25 Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick .
26 He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second .
27 He passed her the can .
28 He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket .
29 And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered .
30 He passed her the phone .
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