Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I said why did n't 'e go an' get it back 'isself , 'e said do n't ask questions . |
| 2 | 'E left me roastin' outside the gates while 'e went an' phoned the police , ’ Freddie moaned . |
| 3 | Nothing could persuade him to confirm or deny . |
| 4 | I 've told him to go and sit quietly . |
| 5 | Because a client can not pay you , you ca n't say you wo n't act for him , you ca n't tell him to go and sort the Inland Revenue out himself . |
| 6 | " You might at least ask him to go and make his own baby 's bottle , " said Clelia . |
| 7 | The day after his father 's funeral , his grandmother , Mrs Yaxlee , told him to go and ask his lordship for a job . |
| 8 | I 'd tell him to go and ask at the gas sh offices for any erm shop-soiled |
| 9 | I ca n't put on the black and peach creations he bought before , so I told him to go and get something sensible at Marks and Spencer . |
| 10 | Anita encouraged him to go and decided that while he was away , running a shop would be a less demanding occupation than working all hours in a restaurant . |
| 11 | Like him to go and look at the one at er the at er which seems to be a successful one |
| 12 | He gave him a broom and told him to go and sweep the animal turds of the deck . ’ |
| 13 | I probably told him to go and jump in the river . ’ |
| 14 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 15 | Sir Emmanuel told him to go and pick it up , but Stanley replied , ‘ Go and pick it up yourself ! ’ |
| 16 | Tales like this inspired him to go and explore for himself ; and apart from them he had another reason . |
| 17 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 18 | Yeah , but you had to sort of force him to go and take some |
| 19 | The advocate-depute , Ann Paton , QC , asked if , as a result of what he had told Mackie about the profits warning , Mr Runciman had expected him to go and deal in Shanks & McEwan shares or communicate with others in such a way that they would deal in shares . |
| 20 | £2000 would , according to his calculations , be more or less enough for him to go and spend the rest of his days with his widowed sister . |
| 21 | Though what those powers were that made him think and say such things , he did not know or understand . |
| 22 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 23 | When stopped by the car park attendant , the disturbed man shoved the attendant aside , causing him to fall and break his wrist . |
| 24 | Could there have been a fight causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on something ? |
| 25 | The boy had scoffed at this but Farag had told him to wait and see . |
| 26 | The aim is to invite the Holy Spirit to reveal what is causing this block to growth and to invite him to heal and restore to wholeness the person in question . |
| 27 | In addition to his responsibilities for roads and bridges , the commissioners employed him to plan and erect forty new churches , mostly in outlying districts and on the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 28 | Then when we got to the sawmill I 'd stay close beside Uncle Bill watching him sawing and planing , keeping well away from the saw , until midday when the mill shut up for the week . |
| 29 | Sister Cooney looked at him with a polite , questioning smile and waited for him to continue or change the subject , as he thought fit . |
| 30 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |