Example sentences of "and [prep] a [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the inroads made by professional astronomers , he abandoned meteor observations , and as a new challenge he began in 1953 to sweep the sky for comets , at first using a 10-cm ( 4-inch ) refractor . |
| 2 | Greathead was involved in the early 1890s with several other deep tunnel railway schemes , including the Blackwall tunnel under the Thames , and as a complete contrast he was also associated with ( Sir ) C. Douglas Fox [ q.v. ] in the construction of the Liverpool overhead electric railway , opened in 1893 . |
| 3 | He was commissioned to oversee the burning of the martyr , Snell , at Richmond , and as a zealous Catholic he took part in the Pilgrimage of Grace . |
| 4 | Kitzler was also a provincial musician , but he was well versed in Beethoven 's compositional methods and as a working instrumentalist he seems to have been shrewdly aware of what the leading contemporary composers were up to . |
| 5 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 6 | An " accommodated " child is not in care and as a general rule he may be removed at any time without prior notice . |
| 7 | Alan Davies did , and as a stand-up comedian he has refined a form for its expression that the live circuit and television like . |
| 8 | On moving to Switzerland , he had forfeited his German citizenship and was therefore ineligible for active service , but an exception was made for him , and as a German patriot he was allowed to volunteer in the capacity of medical orderly . |
| 9 | True to form , Orwell in his notes on Waugh disapprovingly named snobbery and Catholicism as the two driving forces of the novel , and as a secular radical he must have felt obliged to reprobate the one as much as the other . |
| 10 | ALAN McCloskey , from the Rook 's Nest , Armoy , has strung together some wonderful performances this year and as a fitting reward he has been re-elected secretary of the Ballymoney pool league . |
| 11 | Cade towards the end of his life was being superseded by Jewish moneylenders , and as a Christian usurer he would come to appear as something of an anomaly after his death . |
| 12 | He ‘ valued himself upon the sieges and services he had been in ’ ; and as a military expert he drew the attention of the Long Parliament ( summoned on 3 November 1640 ) to the danger from the Irish army under the command of Thomas Wentworth , first Earl of Strafford [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | He lay at her side and for a long while he did n't speak . |
| 14 | He admired the company 's pre-war products — efficient little sports cars with something of the modern Lotus spirit about them — more than any other car , and for a long time he used Astons on the road . |
| 15 | My husband thought they were a failure and felt embarrassed about them , and for a long time he would n't let me see them . |
| 16 | But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more . |
| 17 | He opened his eyes in darkness and for a horrific moment he was completely adrift , not knowing what was happening or where — or who — he was . |
| 18 | George drove , not going anywhere , and for a few minutes he said nothing , then : ‘ Ecology . |
| 19 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 20 | He had never seen fear more clearly written on human faces and for a brief second he was puzzled . |
| 21 | These people were dangerous in their fury , and for a brief moment he knew the terror of the threat of physical attack , and he looked over his shoulder for an escape route . |
| 22 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 23 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 24 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 25 | And after a nervous start he brought off some important saves — but this was one time he was n't so sure , playing spot the ball with Mark Wright . |
| 26 | ‘ Did you say ten past four ? ’ she said weakly , and after a quick nod he was striding down the corridor , to disappear through the swing door that marked the boundary of the endocrine ward 's domain . |
| 27 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 28 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 29 | Luke had tensed as she touched him , and after a few seconds he flung her hand off , the violence of the gesture silencing her abruptly . |
| 30 | Mac came in fifth but with the same time as Richard , the Frenchman , and after a British protest he was allowed to go forward as the track had a nine-lane straight . |