Example sentences of "and [conj] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors argue that this too was an act of desperation , not part of a grand design ; and that he construed his famous interview with the American ambassador , April Glaspie , as a ‘ green light ’ . |
| 2 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 3 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 4 | If pressed , most of us would say that he deepened our understanding of human nature , and that he made us aware that the mind of Man is complex and contradictory . |
| 5 | His son and heir , Charles II , managed to win the support of the Scots by convincing them that he was a true Protestant and that he favoured their presbyterian form of church government . |
| 6 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 7 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 8 | And if he did something dreadful to Hepzibah it would be all Carrie 's fault , though she had n't meant any harm , only passed on a message . |
| 9 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 10 | Well it was on the settee and cos he had his blue hat on . |
| 11 | His moods , as reflected in her letters , remained volatile and while he continued his triple tasks — preparation for the examination , deciding the final shape of his first book , and producing a spate of articles , many of which were published — there are continuous references in her letters to his indifferent health and to his repeated determination to live chastely with her until circumstances alter . |
| 12 | Release could only come if and when he finished his long apologia . |
| 13 | And when he had his ninth birthday party last July , Michael Jackson was one of his guests . |
| 14 | He raised his game to another level and when he plays his best , he 's a really tough player to beat . |
| 15 | ‘ I work there , ’ he replied simply , and when he saw her astonished expression he set his glass down and laughed . |
| 16 | He is old and when he dies he selfish son inherits the land . |
| 17 | And when he squeezed their tender roundness while still rooted deep within her , she could n't bear it . |
| 18 | But he took care to publish them as ‘ Sine nomine ’ or ‘ Missa primi toni ’ and when he issued his Second Book of Masses ( Rome , 1567 ) he claimed that he had composed ‘ music of a new order in accordance with the views of the most serious and religious-minded persons in high places ’ . |
| 19 | And when he built his first engine it was made out of erm iron and stuff and was extremely heavy . |
| 20 | When he first came the villagers wanted to get rid of him but he would n't go , and as he made himself useful they came to endure him . |
| 21 | Their heads were close together and as he appeared they all looked up in unison with startled faces and fell silent . |
| 22 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 23 | He had discovered Oliver weeping in the conservatory and though he remembered his own childhood clearly enough to know this was the likely end to any birthday , it touched and disturbed him . |