Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] and he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 2 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 3 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 4 | He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 . |
| 5 | Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates . |
| 6 | then I turned round and says no you have n't you 've got eight and a half weeks and he has n't he 's got twelve and a half . |
| 7 | The redhead brought out some glasses and he drank the liquid down in one go . |
| 8 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 9 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 10 | Do you know , it dawned on me , I went in shop this morning for some stamps and he did n't have any and I were gon na go to garage you only get er four stamps in them books now . |
| 11 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 12 | DJ here can tell you that he 's travelled all these years and he says he 's run into my guitars all over the world ! ’ |
| 13 | Holt does not want children to be obliged to take on any of these responsibilities and he manages to make his point by concentrating solely on the rights so that he can remark : |
| 14 | Wexford thought all these things and he knew Burden was following his thoughts , matching them , so he did n't bother to say anything . |
| 15 | His diet excluded all these items and he claimed that 70 per cent of children improved considerably on this regime . |
| 16 | ‘ And the old man said that he had talked about my grandfather many times and he said : |
| 17 | Scott had watched him get into the rocket many times and he dreamed about going with Space Man . |
| 18 | The joint favourite Mr Michael Buckley 's The Proclamation fell at the fourth fence , which was a nasty blow to his many supporters and he had been heavily backed . |
| 19 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 20 | He also warned against buying Columbian coffee and eating too many beefburgers and he finished his ‘ don'ts ’ by saying ‘ do n't be buried , be cremated instead ’ , causing much amusement among his audience . |
| 21 | He is a universal being and is therefore above the pettiness of deception ; he loves all things and he knows all things love him . |
| 22 | His changes , designed to tighten the defence for another tilt at the European Cup , has not pleased all critics and he knows his twin requirement is about as tough as football can provide . |
| 23 | he does , he wants those smarties and he knows , he knows where they 'll be |
| 24 | — He saw his chance with those keys and he took it . |
| 25 | There were clear lines beyond which he and the other senior figures in the Party could not go without forfeiting the support of the members and the ordinary voters and , in appearing to have countenanced the idea of an emergency coalition with the SDLP , Beattie had crossed those lines and he paid the price . |
| 26 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
| 27 | " Now El-ahrairah was among the animals in those days and he had many wives . |
| 28 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 29 | So I give him more arms and he says he does n't need to make concessions because Israel is strong . ’ |
| 30 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |