Example sentences of "and he [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have , but he does n't believe there are two of us ; he saw the card you sent me and he thinks I got the idea of a twin from that . |
| 2 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 4 | And he knew he had the backing of the President and most of the powerful Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill . |
| 5 | His eyes filled with water and he rubbed them to remove the dirt . |
| 6 | He 's on Radio One in the evenings and he does he does the afternoon , he does D L T's Sunday morning slot now because he |
| 7 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 8 | In went the putt and he asked me to keep the ball because he wanted to take it home and get it mounted instead of throwing it to the crowd . |
| 9 | Action for the good of England was something which the writer admired , and he demanded it to forestall the enemy . |
| 10 | No she said , I 'll get you ! and he said I have the mobile phone number . |
| 11 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |
| 12 | Mr Fuller said : ‘ Our club only heard from him when we had discos in the club house and he phoned us to keep the noise down . ’ |
| 13 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 14 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 15 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 16 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 17 | She gave him the bundle and he opened it to examine the contents . |
| 18 | And he let them see the gun . |
| 19 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 20 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |