Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should have made him buy you a bloody pint ! |
| 2 | If , for example , a Russian artist is giving you one of his canvases , you would be wise to ask him to write you a certifying document first . |
| 3 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And , as he said in his letter , it was all right for him to rough it a little while he was on his own , but he has Elise to think of now . ’ |
| 5 | But just before he could get the words out , she begged him to do her a tremendous favour . |
| 6 | It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Rainey put in some fast laps during the final stages of qualifying , so I was expecting him to give me a tough time , ’ said Doohan . |
| 8 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 9 | And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love . |
| 10 | Can we now proceed to welcome the Deputy Mayor to ask him to give us a civic welcome . |
| 11 | Can I thank Jim very much indeed for attending our conference this morning and ask him to give us a civic welcome . |
| 12 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 13 | Let him call it an English fief if he will , it makes no difference to the truth , it 's but a word . |
| 14 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 15 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 16 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 17 | Then , ‘ after a great deal more chit-chat I let him kiss me a tender goodnight on the doorstep with the promise to phone when he could and , gathering up my ermines , swept into the great portal . |
| 18 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 19 | Erm she makes erm get him to make you a new bag look . |
| 20 | Everything about him makes him a tricky subject . |
| 21 | Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person . |
| 22 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 24 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 25 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 26 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 27 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 28 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 29 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 30 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |