Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met nearly every day , and he taught me a lot about books and poetry and writers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I told him , about seventeen pounds a week , and he offered me a pound a week less with no payment , but free petrol . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he sent me a lovely Mother 's Day card |
| 13 | There 's not many people got his au and he sent you a Christmas card ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal . |
| 17 | Jenna 's cheeks flushed with embarrassment and he slanted her a look of dark-eyed amusement . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His face tightened and he shot her a quick assessing glance . |
| 20 | And he passed me a pistol . |
| 21 | Gavin 's parents say he never fully recovered , and he left them a poem about his feelings following the attack . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 23 | The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look . |
| 24 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |
| 25 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 26 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 27 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 28 | Stone and Ormanroyd again and he prevents it a corner . |
| 29 | There 's a pal of mine who works at the wood yard and he brings me a bag of bits of wood that 's been left over . |
| 30 | The engine fired on the fourth kick and he flashed her a victorious smile . |