Re: What is this construction

Peter Bleackley wrote:

> One way the construction might be used is to comment on something that
> somebody else has said about the same subject.
>
> "Well, I bumped into him in the pub - made the mistake of trying to
> keep up with him. Half an hour later he'd drunk me under the table."
> "He likes his ale, does Frank."
>
> Pete
Oddly enough, this looks totally normal and non-strange to me, unlike
the Tolkien example. Maybe my parser only accepts it for that precise
usage...

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Yetyem Lédh once stole the sword of Rakaui. It did not go well for him.
It was hardly a century, or what passed for one in the time before the
gods had won their Names, before the sword in its indignation sliced off
his hand.

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