Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [art] " 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 monster , and in his own image , I guess ! ’ |
| 3 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 4 | He made me a much better player and he must go down as one of Dalglish 's best signings . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party . |
| 7 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’ |
| 10 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 11 | He made her a cup of tea while she sorted the washing , closed up the cases and pushed them into the cupboard under the stairs . |
| 12 | When she stopped crying , he made her a potato man with matchsticks for legs . |
| 13 | He made himself a cup of coffee and then , feeling deflated and not a little depressed , went to bed . |
| 14 | Back at Uncle Albert 's , Gedanken searched the fridge for a Coke ; he made himself a coffee . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He made himself a cup of instant coffee and two slices of toast . |
| 17 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 18 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 19 | As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago ! |
| 20 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 21 | He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He made it a rule that the work which flowed in during the course of the day had to be dealt with during that day , unless there was a very good reason . ’ |
| 24 | He made it a statement rather than a question . |
| 25 | For one thing , he made it a reproach that Anselm 's ‘ election ’ had been the work of schismatics — a charge which Anselm coldly denied . |
| 26 | He made it a requirement that the husband should not exercise such access in the presence of his mistress or her son without further order of the court . |
| 27 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 28 | He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself . |
| 29 | In fact , he made it a rule never to make any friend who could not be useful to him . |
| 30 | He made it a statement . |