Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 12 | He offers us a practical young man who , unprepared for such a challenge , faces it boldly , controlling moments of doubt simply because there is so much to be done that there is no time for introspection . |
| 13 | This he did , and when he had learned to ride it he realized what a radical improvement it would be if he could propel it without putting his feet on the ground . |
| 14 | When the rebels formed a provisional National Defence Junta a week after the start of the rising , Franco was not a member , although he became one a few weeks later . |
| 15 | He asked them a few times . |
| 16 | While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery . |
| 17 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 18 | Yeah I only put in for three thousand , he got me a nine . |
| 19 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 20 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 21 | He slanted her a quick look . |
| 22 | He slanted her a speculative glance . |
| 23 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 24 | He flung her a savage look and asked abruptly , ‘ Do you still hate me ? ’ |
| 25 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 26 | He flung her a furious look . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 29 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 30 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |