Example sentences of "[noun sg] and he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 2 | It sunk into 30,000 delegates and millions watching at home that this man knew he was not a charismatic orator but he knew , too , that he was going to be President and he could handle it . |
| 3 | Give Palace 's manager Steve Coppell the dosh and he will show you what to do with it . |
| 4 | I 've seen th this fella came down and he was selling pianos and er he went down this particular terrace and he must have sold seven , eight , or nine or ten on , on both sides . |
| 5 | Cuervas is boss at the club and he will know what he is doing . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ said William , as if it had completely slipped his mind and he 'd have been quite happy talking about Satan and Hell and related matters for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 7 | All the facts of the case will be fresh in his mind and he will have just heard the mitigation of counsel . |
| 8 | One moment of confusion and he might give someone away , or incriminate himself . |
| 9 | ‘ Be your own lawyer and you 'll have a fool for a client ’ , is an adage that calls for another : ‘ Employ a lawyer and he 'll have a pauper for a client ’ — Sunday Times . |
| 10 | Throw him off the roof and he 'll go ‘ PLUMP ’ ! |
| 11 | That Rohmer fella might have the proper ID and he might corroborate your funny story , but do n't think I 'm falling for any of this crap . ’ |
| 12 | He wants your practice and he 'll do anything to get it . ’ |
| 13 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |
| 14 | So then , I 'd have another piece and he 'd trot off and he 'd run again by the shed ! |
| 15 | So someone would come and clean his car and he 'd give it to them , yet you would work your guts out for a fairly modest salary … |
| 16 | He 's been formally trained , but he can get on a sax and he can improvise and he had a respect for the improvisation that we do in rap . ’ |
| 17 | no the gourmet like detective yeah and they come in and they go God that was a tough crime and he 'd go after a crime I like something to eat and then he goes into the kitchen and he 's going |
| 18 | ‘ Bank robbery is a very serious crime and he must have known considerable violence would be involved as he provided the sledge hammer , ’ said Judge Hart . |
| 19 | If the machine has not been delivered by that date , the buyer can treat the failure to deliver as a breach of a condition and he can cancel the contract as time for delivery is usually construed as being a condition ; see Hartley v Hyams [ 1920 ] . |
| 20 | He told us too that Rabbie Burns was n't a real poet and he could tell by my face that I did n't like that or him . ’ |
| 21 | because I say if he 's got a key and he can get in |
| 22 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 23 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 24 | I rate him very highly as a defender and he will do a good job for us . |
| 25 | It was an expression that still gave him pleasure and he would have used it to describe his own limited grasp of the subject , but it would have been wasted on the sparrow-sized man across the big desk from him . |
| 26 | Alan Irwin captains the side and he will have Robert Glenn , Brian Faith , Taff Watson and George Neilly all fighting for the other two berths in the back row . |
| 27 | And the miner can only pick up a , a pick and knock the rook and he can tell exactly where er where it 's weakest in the rook . |
| 28 | I 'd sit on his lap and he 'd stroke me and rabbit on , and this sound would crop up with a kind of sighing and sometimes his voice would have an edge to it , too . |
| 29 | Wears he wears white Swiss cotton and he 'll change half way through the day , depending on whether he 's got , you know , in fairly important meetings . |
| 30 | He was a retired thatcher and he used to come and work the bees , as he said , at the saddler 's where I was apprentice . |