Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he gave them the impression that he wrestled , with limbs contorted , in the effort to seize hold of what truth could be found . |
| 2 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 3 | ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid . |
| 4 | We met nearly every day , and he taught me a lot about books and poetry and writers . |
| 5 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 6 | An extra bottle of wine and some spare grub and he had himself a harmless court jester whose sallies were guaranteed to shock or amuse . |
| 7 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 8 | I told him , about seventeen pounds a week , and he offered me a pound a week less with no payment , but free petrol . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 10 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 11 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 12 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 13 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 14 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 15 | She stared at him and he knew what the answer was going to be . |
| 16 | She wrote to him and he sent her a 16mm print , together with letters 12 and 15 pages long , ‘ jammed with such an enthusiasm for movies that words ran together and the pressure he applied to the keys left the paper riddled with holes ’ . |
| 17 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 18 | And on the Monday morning my dad rang the doctors and he sent her a prescription and on the Thursday he had to call him out . |
| 19 | And he sent me a lovely Mother 's Day card |
| 20 | There 's not many people got his au and he sent you a Christmas card ! |
| 21 | Er we have n't had to see anybody about that and he sent us a letter saying that he 'd like to see us and we went and he says it there might not be a second inquest . |
| 22 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 23 | And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal . |
| 24 | Their names were Farag and Libab and he saw them every day . |
| 25 | Jenna 's cheeks flushed with embarrassment and he slanted her a look of dark-eyed amusement . |
| 26 | When , pulses racing in a most disturbing manner , she tried to withdraw her arm his grip tightened , and he slanted her a glance from beneath long thick lashes that held a distinct challenge . |
| 27 | His face tightened and he shot her a quick assessing glance . |
| 28 | She stared at his profile , trying to see in him her old hero , and he shot her an intrigued look as he felt her eyes on him . |
| 29 | And he brought me an American train , complete with a cowcatcher and a figure-eight track . |
| 30 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |