Example sentences of "and he [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has vilified Simon Bates with a campaign that amounts to persecution and he flies into a howling rage every time he hears Sing Something Simple ( R2 ) . |
| 2 | She dropped the camera from her face as the lens filled with his anger , and he receded to a safe distance from her ; but he was still bearing down , yelling , ‘ What the fuck is going on ? |
| 3 | And he dropped in a twenty seven inch Sony this morning . |
| 4 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 5 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 6 | and he had over a thousand , one hundred a month |
| 7 | And he talks of a European home from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 8 | Froebe 's eyes opened weakly , and he coughed in a huge racking spasm . |
| 9 | A greater than these , or any earlier German composer , was to make his debut with a Primo libro de madrigali ( Venice , 1611 ) , but this 26 year-old pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli , ‘ Henricus Sagittarius ’ ( Henrich Schutz ) , was to work almost entirely in other fields and he belongs to a later |
| 10 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 11 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 12 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 13 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 14 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 15 | At two o'clock in the morning the doctor gave him a sedative and he went into a deep sleep , but when he awoke he did not speak to anyone , and the police found great difficulty in questioning him too . |
| 16 | He was bent in the act of locking the car as Maggie came up and he straightened to a considerable height , dark eyes running over her in astonishment . |
| 17 | I thump a rabbit chop on the back of his neck , and he crumples like a stabbed bull in the ring . |
| 18 | And he rode with a jewelled twinkle , |
| 19 | His boots were up to the thigh , and he rode with a jewelled twinkle , his pistols but a twinkle , his rapier hilt a twinkle under the jewelled sky . |
| 20 | Someone collected five dollars from Culley and he walked into a roofless space . |
| 21 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 22 | Tony ate his meals in the kitchen and he slept in a little room at the top of the farmhouse . |
| 23 | And he pleaded for a firmer approach from tonight 's referee , Denmark 's Kim Milton Nielsen . |
| 24 | So in came James — and he recovered from a jittery start to stamp his authority on an emphatic Liverpool win . |
| 25 | And he stays in a four-bedroomed detached house . |
| 26 | He had a good tenor voice and he belonged to a male voice glee party . |
| 27 | He said it in English , slowly , as though enjoying the sound of the words , and he added with a secret little smile , ‘ That happened just before he was recalled at the request of Lami Dozo himself . |
| 28 | She went reluctantly , and he added in a low voice : ‘ I ca n't help you I 'm afraid . |
| 29 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |
| 30 | And he sleeps in a normal bed . |