Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an exciting story and he told it well . |
| 2 | He looked into her kind brown eyes and he told her his story . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Her words were an implied criticism and he read her well . |
| 5 | Six months in the top flight and he thinks he 's f***ing Brian Sewell to the football world . |
| 6 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |
| 7 | And Archie tied one of the ropes to the box of groceries and we pull it across ; and then we tie the other rope to the empty box and he pull it across empty ready to fill it up again . |
| 8 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were chilling words and he resented them because he felt prohibited from asking her to explain them . |
| 11 | It was his first real tragedy and he took it very badly . |
| 12 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 13 | ‘ My father was a professor of Roman studies and he chose it , ’ she said automatically , but then her eyes flicked to his in alarm . |
| 14 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 15 | And when I hear that , when you 're working you 're talking as well and he , he , he was a good talker and , and he , you know , he was a good union , a good clever speaker and he impressed me . |
| 16 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 17 | ‘ And then Grant gets that primeval male thing and he thinks he should be doing more . |
| 18 | It is a poem which uses plain , simple language and he holds it together using onomatopoeia and effective rhyme but you do not feel as if there is one definite clear-cut image or message in it . |
| 19 | Jenna looked up at him with tear-drenched eyes and he wiped them almost absently , his mind clearly in the past . |
| 20 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 21 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 22 | It er er he pleated the he the halter into the tail of the leading horse and he took them down the road in a string like a train . |
| 23 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 24 | It sprang into bright white light and he covered it with its glass globe . |
| 25 | The skin beneath them gradually swells until eventually the eggs are seated in little sockets and he carries them until they hatch . |
| 26 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 27 | Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book ! |
| 28 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 29 | He had got wind of a rumour that Vincent planned to sponge off his rich relatives and he hoped it was n't true . |
| 30 | Ask why John does n't use traditional Fenders and he tells you he does n't want to be limited in how he plays : ‘ Like , an A has to be played there , a G there and so on . |