Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , and he told me to take a spoonful |
| 32 | Yes , and he told me to take a spoonful |
| 33 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 34 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 35 | I do as I 'm told , and he told me to include you in this job . ’ |
| 36 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 37 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 38 | The priest was there and everything , and he told us to sit down . |
| 39 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 40 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 41 | This time no expression came over their faces and he knew they did not have much time to live . |
| 42 | And He knew she 'd paid sorely for having Jenny , paid in her own shame at being caught by a married man at her age , paid in being the cause of her death . |
| 43 | ‘ Yes , ’ she lied , and he knew she lied . |
| 44 | The dark bulk of buildings on his right gave way to emptiness , and he knew he 'd reached Princess Street . |
| 45 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 46 | From the other end came a gasp and he knew he 'd been heard . |
| 47 | And he knew he had not the justification of genius . |
| 48 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 49 | He had been almost three years in this post , the appointee of the new administration , and he knew he had done well , even though he had to succeed the incomparable Charles Price of the Reagan years . |
| 50 | And he knew he had the backing of the President and most of the powerful Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill . |
| 51 | Panic threatened to engulf him again , and the terrible desolate coldness was like an icy vice about his heart , and he knew he had never been so completely alone . |
| 52 | The strain of the last few days was beginning to tell , and he knew he had n't got much energy left . |
| 53 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 54 | And he knew he had to get rid of her . |
| 55 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |
| 56 | And he knew I knew he knew . |
| 57 | He knew all this and he knew I knew it . |
| 58 | And he knew I know he knew that too . |
| 59 | And he knew I did n't have to be home for the kids or whatever , he knew my circumstances so well and he knew th exactly how much he could use me you know . |
| 60 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |