Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] he the " in BNC.

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1 John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother .
2 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 .
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 One of the Germans stationed in the house got suspicious of Antoinette hanging about near the cellar door and made her give him the key and go down there with him so he could see what she was hiding .
5 Eventually he persuaded me to give him the name and address of my parents .
6 In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust …
7 At least he knew I told him the truth .
8 On Joe 's previous leave he had noticed how quiet and unhappy she seemed , and persuaded her to tell him the reason .
9 If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots .
10 So , did you give him the number ?
11 Did you give him the milk ?
12 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 —
13 Nor did they see him the day after that .
14 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
15 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 .
16 He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn .
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