Example sentences of "[verb] and he [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 2 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
| 3 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 4 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We met and he showed me some excellent photos he had taken at the crash site . |
| 6 | The Waters agreed and he telephoned me . |
| 7 | ‘ I turned to go and he hit me . |
| 8 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 9 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
| 10 | Sent memos all round , you know and he called me in the office that day , to say I 'm really disappointed in you , I said , what do you mean ? |
| 11 | And I went and he offered me erm to start the next month and I just could n't believe it . |
| 12 | ‘ I came here the morning after she died and he told me . |
| 13 | However , I insisted and he ushered me into the Captain 's sea cabin . |
| 14 | ‘ I told him I did and he gave me a look which suggested that I should n't have kept it from him ! ’ |
| 15 | I auditioned and he hired me . |
| 16 | Anyway , I gave him the gist of what had happened and he asked me if I would let him know if we found her . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There , I asked the proprietor if there were any really old places I could visit and he directed me to a farm called La Valdieu . |
| 20 | I asked him what he wanted and he hit me with a gin . ’ |
| 21 | When God comes and he asks me to give something , whether it 's my finance , whether it 's my time , whether it 's my , my abilities , whether it 's , even my life itself for him , he only asks because he has already done it . |