Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 2 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 4 | He thought he knew who the tall young man might be . |
| 5 | At least he knew I told him the truth . |
| 6 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 7 | Eventually he persuaded me to give him the name and address of my parents . |
| 8 | He rose , paced about the little room , stared at the oak bureau , remembered it in his old room , in the nursery ; it had come here with Matey — he remembered her showing him the secret drawer it held , quite capacious , and unthinkingly worked the mechanism which opened it — |
| 9 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 10 | Richard Price says he wishes he knows what the secret of the dove family is … they 're just good horses and Flakey Dove is the best they 've had … she 's going to Cheltenham to see how good she really is … |
| 11 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 12 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 13 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 14 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 15 | Still , it makes for some interesting innuendo as he admits he has something the other girls have n't . |
| 16 | He wished he knew what the time was . |
| 17 | Nikos had been busy , too , and he summoned them to show them the result of his labours . |
| 18 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |