Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's why he made us witnesses and executors … ’ |
| 2 | He knew I did n't have an education so he lent me books . |
| 3 | Is he eating them beans ? |
| 4 | Anderson seemed to be the only person at home ; he sold them jugs of ale , small beer for the children ; James 's credit was good for a stone jar of whisky and one of the Duke 's men was detailed to carry it on his back in a wicker frame . |
| 5 | He saw the funny side of it and used to say when he met me years later " How 's your sexual depression , then , Bruce ? " |
| 6 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 7 | This teacher was always making me sit on his knee , and when he asked me questions like ‘ What is the square root of five thousand six hundred and seventy-eight and a half ? ’ , which I could n't answer , he tickled me . |
| 8 | He asked me questions about Syl and about myself without any pretence at politeness . |
| 9 | he 's a lot better though he got them tablets , he got some tablets from doctor on Monday when he went |
| 10 | And he has them cows and all that there , them that was |
| 11 | He promised us photos of the bairn because I said that was the condition for signing , and I got one and that was that . |
| 12 | He loves you guys ! |
| 13 | ‘ So why should he do you favours ? |
| 14 | He says them trustees are going to sell it and keep you here because it 'll be cheaper . ’ |
| 15 | And he says he quites like quite , he he said he quites likes them all really , you know . |
| 16 | Jim 's leg got better and better , and he told them stories about his school . |
| 17 | ‘ He told them things were different in England , ’ explained Constance . |
| 18 | ‘ He told me things , but … |
| 19 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 20 | He had a patch of land he ploughed with a hand plough and he told us stories about coming home across the fields in snowdrifts with carthorses . |
| 21 | I used to sit transfixed as he told us stories about some of these DPs , as they were called . |
| 22 | He shows me charts of average weight and height , because now he is working on his motorbike , going from door to door selling insurance policies , and they use the charts to decide whether someone is at risk of a heart attack . |
| 23 | Surreptitiously photographed at very close quarters he shows us moments in the sand — moments private and not so private . |
| 24 | When the music is angry you can feel McGegan shaking his orchestra by their throats , and when Handel calls for celebration , he hands them sticks of candyfloss . |
| 25 | He showed me photographs of them together in a boat there , on a beach , in a restaurant . |
| 26 | He showed us videos of them in action and I was convinced he was going to bring out the old Kirk Douglas film The Vikings to empha-sise the point , ’ said Neal . |
| 27 | Finally he showed us examples of the work being done by Christians and others fighting AIDS and HIV in communities in Sao Paulo on the East coast . |
| 28 | ‘ He buys me panties , bras and garter belts that are really sexy , ’ she said before going on to reveal , ‘ When I was designing underwear he kept saying , ‘ Make sure there are some sexy bits . ’ ’ |
| 29 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 30 | He landed him invitations to society dances where Jack would normally have been lucky to be collecting coats at the door . |