Example sentences of "and [verb] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 2 | It was the not knowing which perturbed him most and led him to take an action which he knew would lead to his inevitable and somewhat painful death . |
| 3 | This romantic view of the Germanic commune had an unconscious effect on Marx and led him to follow those German historians who were trying to reconstruct an old system which they say as smothered by a newer one . |
| 4 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 5 | Picked up the pace picked up the square ball here and attacked he went went like a bomb . |
| 6 | I telephoned him and asked him to explain . |
| 7 | They went to see my husband in hospital and asked him to see them when he came out . |
| 8 | She promised Louis all the money she had earned , and asked him to go to his cousin who would contact the SOE reseau . |
| 9 | I took Henry back to my flat and asked him to wait outside while I went in to look . |
| 10 | Just to show I 'm nobody 's fool I contacted a veterinary surgeon and asked him to examine the dog ( who was a year old ) to make sure it was n't sickly , had a leg on each corner , would n't keep toppling over , and had a head fixed on the right end . |
| 11 | I 've passed on to him the invitation to the training course on Saturday 5th September and asked him to let you know if he is able to attend . |
| 12 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 13 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 14 | A woman came up with a red balloon and asked him to autograph it , and he took out a fountain pen and commenced a squeaky signature . |
| 15 | I ‘ hung ’ them and asked him to choose which one was best . |
| 16 | Ishan Dutta said Darius Guppy , best man to Princess Diana 's brother Charles in 1989 , phoned him in Bombay and asked him to pose as the owner of an Indian jewel company . |
| 17 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
| 18 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 19 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 20 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Seeing a young officer in the bar , the chairman bought Cooper-Key a drink and asked him to give the list a quick once-over . |
| 23 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 24 | I wrote to Mr Wood last week and asked him to give you a job on the farm . |
| 25 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 26 | And that were on a Wednesday and then on Saturday when I went and asked him come home , got changed , and went down to the club . |
| 27 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 28 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |
| 29 | His scores may not sound impressive but Clarke was obviously impressed by the Sheffielder 's effort against John Wisden , Hillyer and himself and asked him to join the ranks . |
| 30 | He also gave Minton a copy of Pinet 's 1733 edition of Horace , with its engraved decorations , and asked him to use it as a starting point . |