Example sentences of "and he [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then Bernard made two critical decisions ; for the first time he organized some advertising and he hired a new shop manageress .
2 His hair was braided with flowers and he smoked a large joint .
3 And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag !
4 The winner is the one who jumps and crawls for the longest time , and he receives a blue ribbon to wear round his waist .
5 The air was balmy , his spirits high , and he carried a large bunch of grass and greenery from the hedges as a present for Daisy , the milker , and Dulcie , the younger goat .
6 He finally managed to light up as they reached the main road , and he blew a sidelong stream of blue smoke behind the Brigadier 's head .
7 The embassage had a trumpeter , and he blew a resounding flourish .
8 I explained the situation to him and he arranged a single loan to pay off the store cards .
9 It then stood easily and he chose a larger box and stuck his model on the top .
10 When he received news of his success a couple of months ago , Brian was elated … and he breathed a big sigh of relief that he could relax from his schedule of intensive studies .
11 ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know
12 And he raised a plump hand to summon the girl .
13 His eyes narrowed ; Claudia 's face mirrored her shock , and he raised a cynical eyebrow .
14 These , he maintains , are the likely examples which relate to the Florentine cantasi come prints ; and he presents a strong case for the performance of the polyphonic models , and not the monophonic ones as Giulio Cattin suggests .
15 He was in Arras when the last great German offensive began in March 1918 , and he wrote a vivid description of the bombardment of the town in his last book , Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front , published in 1919 .
16 Now also on the site working there was a man kneeling down like this , and he had a black beard , Do n't have n't got the question yet .
17 Robin Denny , defending , said Riley was a man of otherwise good character and he had a good work record .
18 One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek .
19 And he had a good time with the assembled newshounds , especially when one got him off and running with a question about how he felt about winning a national championship .
20 The time UP is right , he had the opportunity and he had a good motive : with Sir Thomas out of the way , he could get the girl and her money .
21 he was late and he had a good car so he snubbed
22 Nothing perturbed him , and he had a sphinx-like face , with amber eyes which seemed to look into your soul .
23 He was already King of Scotland , and he had a young wife , Queen Anne of Denmark , and three young children .
24 Agnes often thought about the disparity in wages : while she was getting fifteen shillings a week , Arthur Peeble only got a pound , and he had a young family to bring up on that , and Nan Henderson 's wage was a niggardly eight and six for a long-day week .
25 And he had a nice voice .
26 His specialities were country houses , churches and vicarages , and he had a great love for bricks , which he used brilliantly and ingeniously .
27 Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data .
28 He wore a pale fawn suit , a white gardenia in his button-hole , an old-fashioned white panama hat with a black band , and he had a small goatee beard .
29 And he , and I remember ah , er er , I mean I was only , well I was sort of and he had his feet up on the table , he was smoking a cigarette and he , and he had a laid back attitude .
30 And he had a dangerous driving or a speeding I think it is
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