Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
2 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
3 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
4 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
5 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
6 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
7 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
8 | And every year he brings me a red rose and a note with the words written : Rudolf — Flavia — always . |
9 | In his extraordinary account of his relationship with Mandy Smith he mentions what a wonderful and ‘ giving ’ lover he has always been . |