Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll hold him to give you a head start . ’ |
| 2 | That was like that was like your man big Albert when they were out and this fucking fella says to him do us a favour mate and he says aye , no problem I 'll do it if I can he says well would you go out sta put your take your trousers down , show us your arse |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When she stopped crying , he made her a potato man with matchsticks for legs . |
| 5 | He got him an office towel for the washroom . |
| 6 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 7 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 8 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 9 | Seems odd , I 'm sure he showed me , he showed me a reading week before Christmas . |
| 10 | He showed me the zodiac panelling , and Lucia 's secret hiding-place . |
| 11 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 12 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 13 | He showed him the mess library and the official telephone , then discreetly vanished . |
| 14 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |
| 15 | Before he poured me a drink M. Chaillot stood puffing his cigar and fondling the breasts of one of the figures . |
| 16 | He handed her a survival bottle of water . |
| 17 | He handed her a leather skirt . |
| 18 | The advice sounded incomprehensible to her but when he handed her the phone receiver back , the car man said , ‘ OK , I 've got that . |
| 19 | He paid her a lump sum and set up a trust fund for daughter Angelique . |
| 20 | So erm anyway er he bought , he ordered me a tumble dryer so that come yes er er Tuesday when he was off . |
| 21 | Then , with their pack gaining the upper hand , Rugby once again benefited from Mr Lander 's judgment when he awarded them a penalty try . |
| 22 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 23 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 24 | " He called it a mud wagon . " |
| 25 | He sent me a computer program he had written called Equalizer . |
| 26 | There 's not many people got his au and he sent you a Christmas card ! |
| 27 | So then at the end of that year he offered me a summer job , a kind of an apprentice job and that was it . |
| 28 | He brought her a silver bucket of ice cubes with the glimmer of a flourish . |
| 29 | Two days later , he brought me a charcoal drawing of her , very lightly done , a sort of dream-like impression and it was so like her , it captured the essence of her so minutely , that I could not believe he had never seen her , only listened to me . ’ |
| 30 | He gives him a petrol account and then he sa he 's started in the building . |