Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion .
2 He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer .
3 Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic .
4 He kept interrupting and eventually I told him he could n't sit in on our discussions any more and I explained why .
5 I just wanted to s revenge for it was supposed to be a fight for me , but I was really angry when he killed my friend so I wanted to revenge Tybaot and suddenly I killed him .
6 The driver was sitting outside waiting and suddenly she remembered him .
7 So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested .
8 And so he decided he could get about three caravans on the the price that my bungalow was occupying .
9 Was drunk , and so I told him to ‘ clear . ’
10 Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England .
11 And so I told him my story .
12 There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him .
13 Erm and so I guess he 's gone away to get some made .
14 The younger one wanted to be a sailor , and so I found him a place on a ship .
15 ‘ Lord Khan , Alexei is betrothed as you have heard to my grand-daughter , and so I consider him a member of my family .
16 Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated .
17 And so she followed him , in search of a drink .
18 Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet .
19 It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore .
20 Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it .
21 As he looked me up and down I examined him in turn from the corner of my eye .
22 I do n't know who it and apparently he asked him that , are , are any of your men gon na be there and if there are he said , I 'm , I 'm gon na pull out and use all my influence to stop the march and the I R A police said no there would not be any gunmen there so I thought yeah , fucking right , oh yeah that 's easy to say , and then if like the reporter said and , and you believe him and you have the feeble excuse towards a small community he said , you know what 's going on
23 His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report .
24 And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down
25 erm Yet the distinction is one on which Proust repeatedly insists , at least for critical purposes , and elsewhere I think he puts the same idea quite succinctly , when he says and I quote , ‘ The man who inhabits the same body as a great genius has very little contact with him . ’
26 He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off .
27 And then when he 'd won he offered Heseltine the had of friendship and promptly he gave him the Poll Tax , which will finish him for ever .
28 And once I gave him a fish-cake for free .
29 As a little girl , Agnes used to go for walks with her father , and once she asked him whether he believed in God .
30 Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ
  Next page