Example sentences of "and he [verb] [pers pn] [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 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 .
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 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 .
10 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 ’ .
11 But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss .
12 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 .
13 And he sent me a lovely Mother 's Day card
14 There 's not many people got his au and he sent you a Christmas card !
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal .
18 Their names were Farag and Libab and he saw them every day .
19 Jenna 's cheeks flushed with embarrassment and he slanted her a look of dark-eyed amusement .
20 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 .
21 His face tightened and he shot her a quick assessing glance .
22 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 .
23 And he brought me an American train , complete with a cowcatcher and a figure-eight track .
24 And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered .
25 And he passed me a pistol .
26 And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story .
27 And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi .
28 Gavin 's parents say he never fully recovered , and he left them a poem about his feelings following the attack .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 The word seemed to be torn from him , laden with reluctant decision , and he flung her a savage look .
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