Example sentences of "[noun sg] and he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 2 | He has done a lot of thinking and he has concluded the labour party is finished for him and I think a lot more people will do the same . |
| 3 | I remember my doctor coming in my kitchen some time ago ( he 's a good friend and a gastronome and he wanted to learn ) . |
| 4 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 5 | ‘ Players like Alan Shearer are a good investment and he 's brought him on . ’ |
| 6 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 7 | This painting has become a veritable obsession and he has returned to it repeatedly over the past thirty years . |
| 8 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 9 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 10 | A groan was his reply and he began kissing her again , this time letting his lips travel down her throat towards the open neck of her blouse and leaving a hot trail of sensation in his wake . |
| 11 | I love anything , claret and bu blue he 's a Senior Vice President of the club and he 's got Aston Villa boxer shorts and Aston Villa pyjamas on one visit |
| 12 | He appreciated that he got his international chance because of his club and he wanted to give something back . |
| 13 | He gets into the back seat and he 's got his feet over the fr the front seat steering with his foot |
| 14 | John Angus Macrae , a fireman at Stornoway Airport , told his wife to telephone for the fire brigade and he went to offer assistance . |
| 15 | A photographer ‘ sees ’ a potential photograph and he tries to capture that in the frame . |
| 16 | James had stated in the prologue to ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ that he had written the book with the independence of Africa in mind and he had considered it more than fortuitous that a number of other books by black writers had been published around the same time . |
| 17 | Yes , I think they get treated rather tough do n't they , I think the batsmen take advantage of the , of the always be in the umpire 's mind and he 's got to be certain . |
| 18 | He was obviously Garry 's brother-in-law and he had mistaken her for Dana . |
| 19 | And , he 's put this in his type of thing and it 's like he 's got his arm stretched out right to his mouth and he 's got a cigarette in his in his hand and it 's that like . |
| 20 | Patrick was grey and blue about the mouth and he appeared to have stopped breathing and his oxygen level was low . |
| 21 | and he 'd remembered this spiel and he 'd got it word perfect and he 's reeling it off as his one objection |
| 22 | No that 's like that in erm Spiderman and he 's like the Punisher and he 's dressed in green . |
| 23 | They had finished their cups of tea and he stood to leave . |
| 24 | He said the other boy had gone into the dormitory and he had had his fingers on the door surround when the door , which had a power unit attached to it , had started to swing shut . |
| 25 | George Michael was on with Jacqueline Bisset and he confessed that she had been his pin-up and he 'd loved her from afar for years . |
| 26 | This was his fault and he had to do something about it ( first attempt at sabotage ) . |
| 27 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 28 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 29 | Monika asks : ‘ Do I answer ‘ Sorry darling , but Daddy is a priest and he chose to put God and his Church before you ’ ? |
| 30 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |