Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 2 | He passed her the phone . |
| 3 | He passed her the can . |
| 4 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 5 | He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second . |
| 6 | He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket . |
| 7 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 8 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 9 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |
| 10 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 11 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 12 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 13 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 14 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 15 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 16 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 19 | You keep in the channel he say you the ground and that was the truth too . |
| 20 | ‘ And why would he promise her the job ? ’ |
| 21 | He spares us the details , saying only that she was tall , well-built . |
| 22 | ‘ He promised me the ricks would be covered , and he has n't done it ! |
| 23 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 24 | ‘ Will he do us the business , Dan ? ’ |
| 25 | One incident that has stuck with me was when he played us the Queen of the Night 's aria from The Magic Flute , telling us that it was notoriously difficult for singers as the top note reached ‘ F in alt ’ . |
| 26 | He told her the others and she tried to memorize them , the positions and the titles . |
| 27 | He told her the gift was Belle Maman 's idea . |
| 28 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 29 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 30 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |