Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She buried her face against him , afraid to say any more in case he guessed how she felt , and he gathered her close , reaching out to switch off the lamps . |
| 2 | Nathan 's face tightened in a wince and he muttered something unintelligible as she smoothed on some antiseptic cream . |
| 3 | The thing is my father was a journalist , and he taught me all the fucking tricks . |
| 4 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to tell you , ’ he said to his wife but he veered away from the effort which would dim it , tangle , it , and he chose something banal and not what was in his mind . |
| 6 | Relative isolation suited his character and he followed his own ideas with considerable success . |
| 7 | She tried to take his hands away , and he raised them both , and patted the air , as if to say , ‘ All right , all right , I was only doing what you wanted . ’ |
| 8 | And he raised his own chin at George and went out , slamming the door behind him . |
| 9 | His reserve broke before he had got far and he revealed his own grievance . |
| 10 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 11 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 12 | He was a brilliant raconteur , with a wicked wit and a razor tongue , and he had them all in stitches . |
| 13 | He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ? |
| 14 | He 'd sent a photograph in and he was sitting in the garden and right and he was on a garden chair and he had his nice hair washed and shiny . |
| 15 | His wife was no help to him , she was a poor , sickly creature , and he had his young sister to care for beside his own boy . |
| 16 | And he had his regular job which his son was keeping warm for him . |
| 17 | We found out that the neighbours on the left hand side , who were in fact an elderly couple , and his son was working erm , and he had his own business working at home . |
| 18 | He had a shaving kit like that , and he had his old , the old after shave lotion and that , and he will , well , picked us , we just fucking said I , I know what will do the trick a bit of fucking gone |
| 19 | King Hussein was informed of our problem , and he had his royal crew uncover the gremlin — a short in the electrical system . |
| 20 | Told him , selling a million pounds worth of flour e er flour a year and he had his twenty first coming up and apparently , he starts spilling the beans |
| 21 | He 'd come straight from work , and he wore his best bespoke Burton 's suit , a yellow waistcoat with a watch on a chain ( a present from Mum ) , and a striped tie in pink and blue with a knot as fat as a bar of soap . |
| 22 | He had left his outer clothes downstairs and he wore his cheap Latvian suit with its wide trouser bottoms as though it was from Savile Row . |
| 23 | Already , like flowers turning towards the sun or like bees seeking pollen , in the wastelands of his world and in the ooze below — in that deep dark underocean of power and Chaos — Jaq sensed attentions focusing upon him tentatively ; and he blanked his own white spark . |
| 24 | Then his head dipped towards her and he kissed her full on the lips , a harsh , plundering kiss that robbed her of breath and left her trembling beneath him . |
| 25 | As the black perfume came tumbling over his breast , and he kissed it sweet in the moonlight , a sweet in the moonlight , and he tugged at his reigns in the moonlight , and galloped away to the west . |
| 26 | Jones , still only 30 , already had a reputation as an experienced seaman and he began his new career by capturing several British ships in the Irish Sea , but his announcement that he intended to raid Whitehaven in Cumberland and burn the vessels moored there nearly provoked a mutiny , for his crew , already disgruntled that so many ships had been sunk instead of seized , saw their prospect of prize money once again going up in smoke . |
| 27 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 28 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 29 | Because he was annoyed and he told me blank that they should have discussed the situation first |
| 30 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |