Example sentences of "and [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , and the free labour conflict conducted by the Shipping Federation , troubled him less , however , than the Federation 's malicious attempts to destroy his credibility and that of the union by maligning his character and labelling him a criminal . |
| 2 | An estimated 3,000 delegates from one faction claiming to represent the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) gathered in Nairobi on Sept. 4 and unanimously elected Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as FORD chairman and designated him the party 's presidential candidate . |
| 3 | Meredith asked , and lent him a handkerchief . |
| 4 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 5 | Their leader grabbed the bridle of Corbett 's horse and asked him a question he could not understand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He thought he 'd find a rich one and sell him the cross for a good price . |
| 8 | Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered . |
| 9 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 10 | By due process of law we have sentenced him to be slit in the hamstrings to be an example to those who would follow him and make him a hero to the people . |
| 11 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 12 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 13 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 14 | And make him an offer he could n't refuse . |
| 15 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 16 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 18 | In ‘ 87 , Nick had been in Athens as one of the team that lured Fawaz Younis to a boat out of territorial waters , and put the handcuffs on him , and read him the charges of Air Piracy and placing a destructive device aboard an aircraft and committing violence aboard an aircraft and aiding and abetting a hijacking . |
| 19 | When my father is drunk and beats me , he does it because I wo n't go out and beg in the streets and bring him the money I get . |
| 20 | If you remember , yesterday afternoon , after the funeral , Francis asked me to lock the studio and bring him the key . |
| 21 | None of them knows for sure if the controlling shareholder , the French government , will keep him on or , in the Gallic equivalent of the kick upstairs , say thank-you and raise him a grade in the Legion d'Honneur . |
| 22 | He had let the dealer from Hadleigh come , a man called Evans or Owens , one of those Welsh names , and sold him a brass lantern and two little carved tables and the sherry glasses . |
| 23 | Managed to let him know about our Social and sold him a book of Christmas Draw tickets . |
| 24 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 25 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 26 | His extreme empathy coloured his behaviour and made him a heady , if unpredictable companion . |
| 27 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 28 | His uncle had entered him as a subscriber onto the Royal Exchange , Manchester , and made him a partner . |
| 29 | And the man to do that was John Bloomm , whose Rolls Razor company brought automated washing within the reach of ordinary people and made him a tycoon worth millions . |
| 30 | He summoned Morgan back to England in disgrace , and made him a knight . |