Example sentences of "he [verb] i a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me a monster , and in his own image , I guess ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He made me a much better player and he must go down as one of Dalglish 's best signings . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’ |
| 9 | And he passed me a pistol . |
| 10 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 11 | He passed me a note that was propped behind a bottle of Long John . |
| 12 | When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope . |
| 13 | He sold me a car . |
| 14 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 15 | He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand . |
| 16 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 17 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 18 | He asked me a lot of questions about myself — what I wanted to do with my life , that sort of thing … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 23 | Yeah I only put in for three thousand , he got me a nine . |
| 24 | He go , he got me , he got me a t-shirt , hat erm he got me trousers , a wicked pair of ragamuffin trousers . |
| 25 | He got me a lot of stuff man ! |
| 26 | Yes , and he did say when he phoned me a night or two ago that you might |
| 27 | He owes me a grand ! |
| 28 | That 's alright , I 'll let you drive me all the way round once so , he owes me a quid you see . |
| 29 | He drew me a map of the route with a stick in the sand . |
| 30 | He drew me a small but accurate map . ’ |