Example sentences of "and [vb past] he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 2 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 3 | Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies . |
| 4 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
| 5 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 6 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 7 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 8 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 9 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 10 | Then I played a trick on Michael , who was a great chatter-up of girls at that time , and told him this person in costume was very keen on him , so he began to chat him up . |
| 11 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 12 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
| 13 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 14 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 15 | I undid my thermos and poured him some milk . |
| 16 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 17 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 18 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 19 | She stood up , smiling acidly , and bade him good day . |
| 20 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Oracle has plucked top product designer Karl Hageman from ASK and named him chief design architect of Oracle Manufacturing . |
| 22 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 23 | He pulled her to the ground and indecently assaulted her but abandoned the attack after the woman screamed and bit him several times on one hand . |
| 24 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 25 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 26 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 27 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 28 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 29 | Sergeant licked Master 's face and hands and gave him playful nips on the arms . |
| 30 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |