Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
| 2 | He resented the implied criticism , and defended himself by saying he merely gave her a book which he happened to have with him , rather than one he felt suitable for such a person . |
| 3 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 4 | And when I worked for her boss he only paid me a fiver ! |
| 5 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 6 | He did n't dislike the man ; he just found him a bore . |
| 7 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 8 | A slight break in the older man 's voice suggested he already suspected what the answer might be and was afraid . |
| 9 | She sometimes wondered if he ever gave her a thought between departing from Taipei early on Monday mornings and his Friday evening returns . |
| 10 | She wondered how he saw her — that was , if he ever gave her a thought , apart from in her official capacity . |
| 11 | He still thought her a traitor . |
| 12 | He still owed her a fiver more than he had on him , she complained . |
| 13 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 14 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |
| 15 | I was dead against it , but he always did what the family wanted . |
| 16 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 17 | He also hired himself a cook-housekeeper-secretary , Cathy Allen , the wife of an actor friend . |
| 18 | He also made her a piece of toast . |
| 19 | He also made it a condition that she be treated by a psychiatrist for a period not exceeding one year . |
| 20 | He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results . |
| 21 | He also gave him an overcoat . |
| 22 | He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls . |
| 23 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 24 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 25 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 26 | He kindly gave me a lift home en route to get his bike : he had a nasty fall off it last week and so it had to be repaired . |
| 27 | He even got himself a VC in the most alarming circumstances , but that did not stem my tears that I shed for this man . |
| 28 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 29 | One or two people in the streets talked to me , including the man who sold the corn to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square — in fact he even gave me a kiss . |
| 30 | ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference . |