Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of his songs he called himself a master of the art of love , good enough to be able to earn his living at it . |
| 2 | Using all his cunning arts he forged himself a blade and wove it round with deadly enchantments . |
| 3 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
| 6 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 7 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 8 | The old man asked about her job ; in exchange he told her a little about himself . |
| 9 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 10 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 11 | When she was thrown out of her digs he found her a room in Randolph Crescent and to get her on to her feet again paid her rent for a month . |
| 12 | And I was with Deborah he gave me a hard |
| 13 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 14 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |
| 15 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 16 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 18 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 19 | Then looking at him again she said , ‘ He sometimes had a walking stick , and … and on that day he bought me a parasol . ’ |
| 20 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 21 | Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table . |
| 22 | On that occasion he sent her a bouquet of flowers , from ‘ Fred ’ to ‘ Gladys ’ . |
| 23 | After a while he offered her a cigarette . |
| 24 | After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes . |
| 25 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 26 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
| 27 | Well at any rate he gave me a ring about erm sometime about four o'clock I think . |
| 28 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 29 | By showing them that they mattered to Him as people He gave them a sense of dignity and released them from their captivity . |
| 30 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |