Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] he [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
2 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
3 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
4 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
5 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
6 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
7 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
8 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
9 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
10 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
11 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
12 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
13 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
14 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
15 | He could make a film with Nastassia Kinski , the most beautiful woman in the world ( Time had just said so , on its cover ) and she left him a slim book of Baudelaire , with some verses underlined . |
16 | ‘ Top o ’ the mornin' to you , Sister Hennessy ! ’ he sang , cheerful as ever , and she shot him a black look . |
17 | Shannon was pleased to welcome the warmth of the flames , but his easy success with a task she knew would have taken her hours irritated her still further and she shot him a withering look . |
18 | ‘ No wonder you 're so graceful , ’ he observed coolly , and she shot him a quick look through her lashes as he strolled beside her , tall and very desirable , his black hair lifting slightly in the breeze . |
19 | Her breath caught , and she sent him a startled look and , as her heart gave a merry flutter to see that his dark-eyed glance , dark and good-humoured if she was not mistaken , was on her again , ‘ Are you inviting me to call you — Vendelin ? ’ she dared , and hardly believed that it could be so . |
20 | He looked at Lissa as though it was all her doing , and she sent him a poisonous stare in return . |
21 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
22 | That gained her immediate attention and she gave him a shocked look . |
23 | ‘ Is that your last word on the subject ? ’ he asked coolly , and she gave him a wintry smile . |
24 | His self-confidence almost swept her off her guard , but the narrowed black eyes were a warning , and she gave him a small , would-be pitying smile . |
25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said , and she gave him a watery smile . |
26 | And this wifey come out and she gave him a nasty talking to , chapping chapping on her door with a stick . |
27 | ‘ That 's right , ’ and she gave him a warm smile . |
28 | The woman 's face brightened up considerably and she gave him a sweet smile . |
29 | And she gave him a bleak little smile and put a plate of hot rolls on the table . |
30 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |