Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 2 | It was an exciting story and he told it well . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He looked into her kind brown eyes and he told her his story . |
| 5 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 6 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 7 | They went over all , while they were doing this work and he gave us a sheet last week , we were doing all the questions this week and he went over all the questions with us ! |
| 8 | But now was the wrong moment and he found himself wondering wryly when the right moment might be . |
| 9 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 10 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 11 | On an early visit there , my father stopped to call on his old friend and he left my younger brother Roy and me in the trap . |
| 12 | Her words were an implied criticism and he read her well . |
| 13 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 14 | I spoke to Peter Chapple-Hyam this morning and he told me he had n't decided what to do . |
| 15 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 16 | And my sister told me that she met with him after Mass this morning and he gave her an envelope . " |
| 17 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 18 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 19 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 20 | I made some comment and he bit my head off . |
| 21 | Of course , he knows that you and I are old friends and he transferred his anger to you . |
| 22 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |
| 23 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 24 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
| 25 | They told my social worker and he told my dad . |
| 26 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 27 | After this comprehensive study of every aspect of horticulture , Miller came to the conclusion that his preference was for ornamental gardening and he established his own nursery in St George 's Fields , Southwark , later the site of King 's Bench Prison . |
| 28 | Sydney Baynes was another admirer and he dedicated his Destiny waltz to them . |
| 29 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 30 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |