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Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.

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1	He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford .
2	We corresponded , and he taught me almost all I know about the conductivity of electricity and its effect on those bodies through which it passes .
3	I stumbled into the bedroom and he followed me in .
4	I played along with him and he followed me in .
5	Er however , I got there at quarter past ten and he followed me in .
6	and he beckoned me in ,
7	He was very very tolerant with me and he brought me back into it without a lot of undue pressure and erm because transport was n't my life but I 'd sort of dedicated myself to it .
8	‘ I did n't get on well with Colin Todd at Ayresome Park and he kicked me out .
9	But he missed his trick and he came a little bit too far and he knocked me over and I was underneath the front of the van .
10	I got up and he knocked me down again .
11	Probably did n't look where he was going — you know , the usual story — and he knocked me down .
12	Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think .
13	I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room .
14	I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off .
15	Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers .
16	I was sick all over him and he cleaned me up and himself up and emptied the bowl and then I did the same thing again .
17	I slithered from his hands and sat down on the ground and he dragged me up .
18	‘ I went to meet him and he took me on — now I go for lessons twice a week . ’
19	And he took me home , er he gave me a good talking to , and tell me dad , cos me , I nearly , I got a good hiding , was going to get a good hiding from me dad , until this policeman says , do n't worry , he says er , you wo n't hear anything about it .
20	The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
21	‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus .
22	And he took me out in it for a test drive .
23	And he cut me off !
24	He wonders why I 'm not caddying for Arnold Palmer , so I tell him there 's been a mix-up and he takes me on .
25	He does n't like to be seen with mum and dad , but when I 'm poorly and he takes me out in the wheelchair , he does n't mind who he meets and he says : ‘ Hi fellas , this is my mum . ’
26	Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good
27	I was there to take some photographs of Waugh and he welcomed me very heartily with a firm handshake and a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau .
28	I was a convent-educated girl and he teased me mercilessly with a string of sexual connotations . ’
29	There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat .
30	Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui .