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 . |