Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I auditioned and he hired me . |
| 2 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 3 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 4 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 5 | He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford . |
| 6 | ‘ The specialist thought negatively , and he advised me to finish . |
| 7 | ‘ They thought it would be a good idea and he recommended me . |
| 8 | The regular vet — a friend of mine — has gone to live in Australia and he recommended me to the zoo as his replacement . |
| 9 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 10 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
| 11 | The thing is my father was a journalist , and he taught me all the fucking tricks . |
| 12 | Indeed , the succeeding lines do refer exclusively to the father : " and he taught me , and he said to me , " Let your heart hold fast my words … |
| 13 | We met nearly every day , and he taught me a lot about books and poetry and writers . |
| 14 | We corresponded , and he taught me almost all I know about the conductivity of electricity and its effect on those bodies through which it passes . |
| 15 | And he taught me to fly like a bird , wo oh oh ! |
| 16 | I stumbled into the bedroom and he followed me in . |
| 17 | I gently pushed him aside and walked in and he followed me around reading with great enthusiasm while I poured the contents of my shoes down the sink , removed my coat and made us both a hot drink , interjecting now and again with , ‘ Fancy that ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I immediately offered him a cup of tea or coffee and he followed me into the kitchen , ’ says Lynsey . |
| 19 | I played along with him and he followed me in . |
| 20 | Er however , I got there at quarter past ten and he followed me in . |
| 21 | And he counselled me to take note of the sea . |
| 22 | However , I insisted and he ushered me into the Captain 's sea cabin . |
| 23 | And he treated me like a lady , too , not a shop-girl . |
| 24 | We stopped off there , had hot chocolate and a piece of spinach quiche , but I was , and erm , and he treated me , which was quite amazing , and then erm , |
| 25 | And he heard me . |
| 26 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 27 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 28 | And he had me . |
| 29 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 30 | and he beckoned me in , |