Example sentences of "he a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 2 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 3 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 4 | He had brought with him a wealth of experience and he shared many a story of his love of the outdoors . |
| 5 | He brings with him a wealth of experience and for our part , we assure him of our loyal support ’ . |
| 6 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 7 | Tony bought him a whisky and then bought him another . |
| 8 | He went in and Franco , unbidden , poured him a whisky . |
| 9 | She gave him a whisky and soda which he drank quickly and he allowed her to refill his glass . |
| 10 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 11 | After the butler had served him a whisky and her a lemonade , Thomas came to sit beside her . |
| 12 | The old Earl adored her , especially as for every birthday and Christmas she bought him a walking stick to add to his collection . |
| 13 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 14 | Henry then renounced the Catholic faith — when the Pope refused him a divorce — and set himself up as Head of the Church of England . |
| 15 | ‘ Garry and I will get married after his dreary wife gives him a divorce . ’ |
| 16 | When Franz Gall , phrenology 's founding father and Spurzheim 's teacher in Vienna , visited England in 1823 he brought with him a selection of some 3000 skulls , plus drawings of the great men of the past . |
| 17 | We stroll arm in arm to the nearest pub and I buy him a freedom drink and lunch ; a pint of stout and a Ploughman 's . |
| 18 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ May I stay with him a while ? ’ he requested . |
| 20 | He had never visited the prison here before , and it took him a while to find it . |
| 21 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |
| 22 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled , holding the boy to him a while , conscious yet again of how insubstantial he seemed . |
| 23 | Took him a while now he 's a very nice chap . |
| 24 | Took him a while to calm down . |
| 25 | But now yeah it took him a while to calm down but he 's a very nice fellow now , very nice chap . |
| 26 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 27 | Earlier this year , six Romanian party veterans sent him a message full of criticism of his policies ; there was talk that he might step down . |
| 28 | However , a delegation from Japan 's ruling Liberal Democratic Party handed him a message from Mr Kiichi Miyazawa , Japanese Prime Minister , calling on him to allay international concern that North Korea 's nuclear programme is weapons-oriented . |
| 29 | Can I give him a message ? ’ |
| 30 | Pilate 's wife sent him a message begging him to have nothing to do with Jesus as she had experienced a bad dream because of him . |