Example sentences of "and he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 2 | It was the ultimate war , the final confrontation between Good and Evil , and he had played a major part in the war . |
| 3 | However , M. Frontenac was entitled to the final say and he had rejected a veritable Gotha of applicants before music in France became somewhat un-sympathetic to a romantic text . |
| 4 | He said they had gone up the Rest and Be Thankful and he had noticed a red van parked in a lay-by which had flashed its lights as they passed . |
| 5 | However , despite his undoubted experience , Crabb 's health was not good , and he had become a heavy smoker and drinker . |
| 6 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 7 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 8 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 9 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 10 | His father seemed a more promising candidate for that role and he had died a natural death . |
| 11 | And he had added a subtle touch for afterwards when the police investigated the catastrophe . |
| 12 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 13 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 14 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 15 | Mr Tholen chaired their appeal committee which raised £250,000 in three months and he continues to invest a small covenant in the school . |
| 16 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 17 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 18 | " Ennalls drowned himself because his fiance threw him over and he 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 19 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 20 | And he 'd say , Well and he 'd got a whole string of Lenin 's books , and he 'd reach down and pick one and turn to the right page straight away , says , This is what Lenin said , and he said , I 'll stand by this , you know . |
| 21 | In Joliet , Illinois , a witness under hypnosis was asked to ‘ stop the video and zoom in ’ on the face of the criminal and he managed to give a detailed description of a man , who was duly arrested and charged . |
| 22 | Naturally , he was speechless with rage and he seemed to go a funny colour , rather like the top range of a steel tempering chart — cherry red . |
| 23 | And he continued to drive a battered 1979 pick-up truck , its upholstery chewed to pieces by his beloved hunting dogs . |
| 24 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 25 | No oh dear Neil said yesterday he was running he was running in thr in through the hall way with karate suit or something he was muttering to himself and he said smoking a healthy , dirty habit , it 's expensive and it shortens your life I love it ! |
| 26 | He first came to prominence as a speaker when he joined the British Union of Fascists , founded by Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , after some years at Birkbeck College where he obtained a first-class honours degree in English , and he helped to found a National Socialist party in London . |
| 27 | I do n't know but an ordinary barge used to have a little wooden crate and he want to have a little tank , they put a fixed charge on of two and six pence that 's what they done . |
| 28 | Novelist , Andrew Field , claims to have discovered the lost chronicle of Edward de Vere in a hidden compartment of a desk in Chipping Norton , and he 's written a convincing novel round the supposed documents , supporting the theory that de Vere was a diplomat scholar and soldier beloved of Elizabeth the first , that he in fact , wrote the plays and the sonnets . |
| 29 | and he 's made a little sort of bird house |
| 30 | And then his son they had a Mercs each , and he 's built a new bungalow now in they 've all got massive big places , it 's fantastic the money they made out of it . |