Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE teenage lover of the man accused of carrying out a vicious sex attack on a coast to coast rambler told yesterday how he asked her to give him a false alibi . |
| 2 | So he invited her sent her a ticket to come to America for a year in nineteen three . |
| 3 | ‘ But without doubt he was the greatest player I have been in the same side with and he helped me improve myself no end . |
| 4 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 5 | He told me to give her a bloody good gallop round t'field . " |
| 6 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 8 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 9 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 10 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 11 | He thought he knew who the tall young man might be . |
| 12 | At least he knew I told him the truth . |
| 13 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 14 | Eventually he persuaded me to give him the name and address of my parents . |
| 15 | He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it — |
| 16 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 17 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 18 | While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery . |
| 19 | He said we owed you a favour , because of all that fuss and bother about the dog that was chasing sheep . |
| 20 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 21 | He said you sent him a film and you did n't say where you wanted the pictures sent . ’ |
| 22 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 23 | and er he said he used it every day he said oh er , now I know the value I shall have to tell my bridge pals |
| 24 | He wished he knew what the time was . |
| 25 | Nikos had been busy , too , and he summoned them to show them the result of his labours . |
| 26 | He wanted someone to make him a prototype . |
| 27 | She did n't snap his head off when he suggested she gave him a hand with the laying of the tables for the morning . |
| 28 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |