Example sentences of "he something " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 'd teach him something . |
| 2 | I wanted to offer him something no one else would . |
| 3 | I suppose you could call him something of a gear freak . |
| 4 | When he retired as chairman of British Aerospace in the summer of 1987 , Pearce had spent forty-two years in industry , all but ten weeks in management , which must make him something of an authority on the subject . |
| 5 | Take time to tell him something about your tastes and lifestyle — and the sort of style you think might suit you . |
| 6 | I just gave him something on the side . |
| 7 | Had he shown himself unambiguously ready to start pulling out , the coalition would have surely had to offer him something , if not to save his face , at least to cover his backside : an American commitment to talk about any Middle Eastern issue whatsoever has already been given ; the call for Iraqi reparations could still be waived . |
| 8 | Instinct told him something big and bad had occurred and that the moment he called Alix it would all be dumped on him . |
| 9 | ‘ He had another one made later at the Mandarin Hotel , but the first one made him something of a laughing stock . ’ |
| 10 | Amelia handed him something from a silver service . |
| 11 | The stoking , the music and the difficulty with which he could be knocked over , earned him something that even Mr Singer himself could n't buy — respect . |
| 12 | North Africa had brought out in him something of the stern Roman . |
| 13 | When he finished , he kicked at the door , I opened it and gave him something to eat . |
| 14 | Marcus , surprisingly , smiled at this question , as if Ludens had asked him something rather simple or childish . |
| 15 | Better yet , give him something like a façade , with doors and windows behind which there operates a mystery which the reader-accomplice will have to look for … |
| 16 | Keep it short , light and friendly , and tell him something positive about yourself . |
| 17 | A couple of years before , when Seve won the PGA Championship there , Sandy 's chance of winning went when he lost a ball and two shots after hitting a television cameraman ; he felt St Georges owed him something . |
| 18 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 19 | Murder was to make him something he had always suspected he might be , but had never dreamed of becoming — interesting . |
| 20 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 21 | He brought with him something of a reputation as a centre-half , but his Palace career , spread over five seasons , was spent largely as a full-back . |
| 22 | As no one , who knows what he is about in good company , would venture to talk all ; — so no author , who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding , would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader 's understanding , is to halve this matter amicably , and leave him something to imagine , in his turn , as well as yourself . |
| 23 | Anwar would find him something else to do to get him in the grocery mood . |
| 24 | When he refused a peerage the reason he gave was that he preferred to think his country owed him something . |
| 25 | By then his triumphs there had given him something of the aura of the awaited one : his following was already in place ; he needed only to organize it . |
| 26 | Zach had already put on his coat and cap and was waiting to tell him something when Ginnie and Miss Thorne 's elder sister burst in . |
| 27 | I must send him something I had written . |
| 28 | As it was , most people laughed , one bright spark asked if I was going to sell him something and a female student in a park scarf accused me of being a pervert . |
| 29 | Yet there is in him something that neither arises out of culture nor contributes directly to it . |
| 30 | Allowing for a 12% margin of error , that gave him something between eleven and thirteen hundred miles of flight at his present subsonic speed . |