Example sentences of "he [verb] i the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 2 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |
| 3 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 4 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He promised me the ricks would be covered , and he has n't done it ! |
| 10 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |
| 11 | He told me the story about where he got it — it was real interesting , and a true story — not a made-up one . |
| 12 | He told me the story . |
| 13 | One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline . |
| 14 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 15 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 16 | He told me the daughter was a bad lot though . |
| 17 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 18 | A full member of the MRS , he told me the polls understated the influence of undecided voters and he now believes he was proved right . |
| 19 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 20 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 21 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 22 | I could see that he was rather cross with me , and soon he told me the reason . |
| 23 | He shows me the calluses on his palms . |
| 24 | He hands me the manuscript , about fifteen pages . |
| 25 | When he hands me the keys , |
| 26 | He hands me the phone . |
| 27 | He hands me the receiver . |
| 28 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 29 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
| 30 | Been in the ground more than two hundred years , Dr. Mac said , and he showed me the crack — just like a cracked cup — where his skull had been bashed in . |