Example sentences of "[adj] and he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked Jones this and he replied ‘ Hardly . |
| 32 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |
| 33 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 34 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |
| 35 | Surely United could n't do it , and in the eighty seventh minute , Paul Simpson ran clear and he shot home from close range . |
| 36 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 37 | Its line was quite clear and he needed only to veer a little into it and he felt enormous uplift under his wings and a lightness and power unlike anything he had felt in the Park . |
| 38 | But , like Morgan , his main orientation was historical and he contributed to evolutionary theory by introducing the term ‘ survival ’ for those customs or beliefs which , like the human appendix , linger on anachronistically out of context . |
| 39 | One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed . |
| 40 | But her fear only provoked him further and he turned + slapped first Jo , and then her solidly across the face — a thing he had never done before . |
| 41 | His voice was calm and he had a definite southern accent . |
| 42 | Beejay is kind and calm and he takes care of me . |
| 43 | But he was OK and he sent her a big kiss . |
| 44 | At every gig we went to , there was a woman there — that 's what we wanted , we liked to see women hanging around the star attraction of the group because he was good-looking and he did stand out and look good on stage . |
| 45 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |
| 46 | oh , he said , that 'd be very interesting and he 'd just been to see the and I said how is she ? |
| 47 | He 's recently widowed and he 's got four children . |
| 48 | His expression was grave and he looked deep in thought . |
| 49 | He took her hand and Robyn felt the strength of him , the warmth seeping through , and then his eyes were grave and he began . |
| 50 | Xu 's ingredients are fresh and he uses just one board |
| 51 | That was really funny and he looked suspiciously close to laughter . |
| 52 | Mr Wakerley said Sams ' first ransom plot involving Julie Dart went wrong and he killed her . |
| 53 | She had never intended to do wrong and he had punished her too hard ! |
| 54 | We had some business to discuss , but his mind seemed to be elsewhere : I asked if there was anything wrong and he said ‘ No , ’ but I could tell that he was keeping something back . |
| 55 | I remember a wee boy in the class I was in in the primary school and he got a row he I remember him getting a row from the teacher and he s the teacher said what did you do wrong and he said oh I 've gone and putten putten where I should 've putten put |
| 56 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |
| 57 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 58 | Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed . |
| 59 | So said to me yes carry on you 're doing fine you know and he went up and er well he did n't know how to start the poor fellow doing smashing and he said , Well erm imagine this hall , he said , this hall we 're in now as a big cavern underground . |
| 60 | In nineteen forty two The Lady proudly announced that the president of the Board of Trade had cut his large bath towels in half and he hoped his sacrifice would be repeated all over the country . |