Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] the " 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 himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 3 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 4 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 5 | He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second . |
| 6 | He passed her the can . |
| 7 | He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket . |
| 8 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 9 | He passed her the phone . |
| 10 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |
| 11 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 12 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 13 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 14 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 15 | Your worships , those are the circumstances I would ask you to bear in mind that this man a ha , has four summonses against him purely as a result of really ignorance as far as purchasing documents is concerned they were in order and erm he would of produced them had he realised what the officer was saying to him and er , that he would of realised had he not been suffering the shock , but he was actually sufferance suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 16 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 17 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 18 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 19 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 20 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 21 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 22 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 25 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 26 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 27 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 28 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 29 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 30 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |