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Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	We met nearly every day , and he taught me a lot about books and poetry and writers .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	I told him , about seventeen pounds a week , and he offered me a pound a week less with no payment , but free petrol . ’
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	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 . ’
9	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 .
10	We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot .
11	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 .
12	She stared at him and he knew what the answer was going to be .
13	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 ’ .
14	But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss .
15	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 .
16	And he sent me a lovely Mother 's Day card
17	There 's not many people got his au and he sent you a Christmas card !
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal .
21	Their names were Farag and Libab and he saw them every day .
22	Jenna 's cheeks flushed with embarrassment and he slanted her a look of dark-eyed amusement .
23	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 .
24	His face tightened and he shot her a quick assessing glance .
25	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 .
26	And he brought me an American train , complete with a cowcatcher and a figure-eight track .
27	And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered .
28	And he passed me a pistol .
29	Gavin 's parents say he never fully recovered , and he left them a poem about his feelings following the attack .
30	‘ 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 .