Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] i [art] " 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 | I told him , about seventeen pounds a week , and he offered me a pound a week less with no payment , but free petrol . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And he sent me a lovely Mother 's Day card |
| 9 | And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal . |
| 10 | And he brought me an American train , complete with a cowcatcher and a figure-eight track . |
| 11 | And he passed me a pistol . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 14 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 15 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 16 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 17 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 18 | And he calls me an asshole all the time . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd go for it if I were you , ’ he said , and he gave me a little peck on the cheek . |
| 21 | Why do n't you come back tonight , as it 's the opening launch of an art exhibition here ? ’ and he gave me a pamphlet . |
| 22 | His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile . |
| 23 | I asked what young chap , and he gave me a description which tallies with what Sanders told us : about twenty-five , darkish , slightly built . |
| 24 | And he gave me a job as Must n't Grumble 's occasional roadie . |
| 25 | And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And he gave me a picture of you to put in my room . |
| 28 | And I went down and he gave me a letter , he says Take your wife in to the general hospital with this letter . |
| 29 | Frank Bloomfield worked most of his life with Ransome , Sims and Jefferies the famous Ipswich firm of agricultural engineers ; and he gave me a very modern illustration of this quality of a serrated edge . |
| 30 | who is a tough and widely experienced chap and he gave me a few more ideas to mull over . |