Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scriptwriter — a trim , balding man in his fifties with a moustache — squeezed Dexter 's hand a little too warmly and gave him a serious smile of appraisal . |
| 2 | Robyn snorted impatiently and threw him a look of disgust . |
| 3 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |
| 4 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 5 | Philip pushed him away and gave him the torch to hold while he did up his lace . |
| 6 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 7 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 8 | After relaying the message to Ng , Gooseneck looked over at Amiss and gave him a long , slow wink . |
| 9 | That 'll be in there and give him a bit of encouragement . |
| 10 | Selim shook hands again and gave him a second look . |
| 11 | She smiled wanly and gave him a quick sidelong glance . |
| 12 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 13 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |