Example sentences of "he and he [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 If he wants to get or to keep his employment , he has to sign the document which the employer puts before him and he may do so without fully appreciating what it may involve .
2 ‘ The horse seems to have improved since we put blinkers on him and he 'll wear them at Ayr .
3 Then smile at him and he 'll forget to ask anything else . "
4 You just want to put your hand on him and he 'll start to quiver — afraid you 're going to back him .
5 ‘ It will be slipped round him and he 'll burn all the quicker . ’
6 That way we can keep an eye on him and he 'll feel reassured .
7 ‘ The thing is , Management will listen to him and he 'll get what he wants , not like poor old Ron who 's been waffling away for years and not getting anywhere .
8 Present your recommendations to him and he 'll say well yeah I 'd like to think about it and you go off then oh fair enough then so you go back to the branch and the second becomes a third
9 Mm , I 'll go back with him and he 'll wear his bloody shoes when I go back with him , how much they charging you for the repairs ?
10 Ah you 're not supposed to do that to them , you 've got ta bowl it to him and he 'll bowl it back to you .
11 No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ?
12 Doyle would start to hit him and he would not be able to stop .
13 Mr Browning would ask him and he would nod , but squeeze her hand and hang his head .
14 He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard .
15 ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’
16 He did understand , and told me to stay close to him and he would take me to the YWCA .
17 A waiter came to deal with the mess , and while he was kneeling there Sheridan said loudly that the waiter was sneering at him and he would get him fired . ’
18 Everyone 's attention was fixed on him and he would obviously strengthen HE 's Executive Council if he could be persuaded to join .
19 It was then that the feeling of utter boredom would assail him and he would be driven to join the crowd for the buses and the queue for a seat in the pictures in Hereford to pass the Saturday afternoon away .
20 ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’
21 ‘ I used to have a terribly runny nose , ’ said Marian , ‘ and I was that much younger than him and he would be landed with me by Mam .
22 Put half a dozen hell-raisers in a room with him and he would be their chief in ten minutes .
23 She had made a fool of him and he would n't let that go .
24 The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road .
25 They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission .
26 In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow .
27 She knew finally why she had stayed to suffer in this way , so she could explain to him and he would see .
28 Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again .
29 Maybe just a few more seconds and they would have fired him and he would n't be in this position now .
30 ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself .
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