Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] i the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 2 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 8 | I smiled at him , and he gave me the trace of a wary smile back . |
| 9 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 10 | I sat up and he gave me the handkerchief out of his pyjama pocket . |
| 11 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 16 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 17 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I want the Eubank return and Iran Barkley as well because he gives me the fear I thrive on , ’ said Benn . |
| 20 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 21 | I wait patiently whilst he gives me the once-over . |
| 22 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |