Example sentences of "and [subord] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had nine years at Leeds , where his children grew up and where he became a specialist in building matters and worked closely with architects on the planning of major buildings . |
| 2 | I want to know how he 's doing in general and where he needs a bit of encouragement . |
| 3 | Kilvert 's clerical career was entirely undistinguished , and although he wrote a quantity of verse and made a collection of Radnorshire folklore , none of his writings , except trivia , was published in his lifetime . |
| 4 | The appearance of a famous face in the show rooms always caused a stir amongst the girls , who all longed to hook a wealthy husband — and if he had a title , like the Aly Khan , or was a film star like Omar Shariff , then so much the better ! |
| 5 | And if he saw a sheep that should n't be where they were and the gentry about to come within days he would soon get them down . |
| 6 | ‘ And if he sees a word like camel with parts of the letters C , M and L missed out , he identifies that word faster than anyone else — and that includes my PhD students . ’ |
| 7 | And if he required a tutor , Thorfinn could have found none better than the Normans , natives of a crowded , belligerent duchy full of strong young barons fighting for power . |
| 8 | He shall provide 2 men at the harvest boonwork at the lords food and if he has a plough he shall plough 1 acre as a boon work . |
| 9 | And if he wanted a promotion to go to a better school . |
| 10 | It has been essential to use light tackle and if he tries a hook any bigger than a size 22 , the fish wo n't even look at the bait . |
| 11 | And if he carries a pound overweight you 've got ta declare it otherwise you 're fined . |
| 12 | And if he finds a fairy lag in light |
| 13 | She had sent her younger son to a private school because the switch to comprehensives was such a mess and because he had a horror of a huge education factory after his primary school where everybody was known by their first name . |
| 14 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 15 | The second from the rebound was blocked on the line by Trevor Steven , and before he had a chance to roll the ball home David Robertson lashed it away . |
| 16 | And when he gets a break from the circuit just before Christmas , he 'll be taking wife Anne and baby George to Florida so that he can train in the sun . |
| 17 | and when he had a look at mine he said no swaps back |
| 18 | My aunt and my mother were particularly fond of him , and when he had a stomach upset they fussed over him all the time , preparing special bland food for him , making him swallow Milk of Magnesia and advising him not to drink too much Christmas sherry . |
| 19 | And when he produced a photo of himself — completely orange — it was accepted by passport office staff at Newport , Gwent . |
| 20 | Menzies himself had a yellow face with a stained-looking flush on each cheekbone , and when he felt a bout of fever coming on , he drank to drown the symptoms . |
| 21 | She stared back at him , and when he raised a hand raised hers in reply . |
| 22 | But his face was beautiful — old and wrinkled — kind and calm and homely and wise — the perfect grandmother He was making a kiss shape with his mouth , and when he made a kiss sound … phut ! all the dust disappeared . |
| 23 | He had a gift of mimicry , and when he made a speech as though he were Asquith or Lloyd George it would raise shouts of laughter . |
| 24 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 25 | Archbishop Ælfric 's bequest to the king of a ship and sixty helmets and byrnies was a gift indeed , and when he gave a ship each to the men of Kent and Wiltshire he was perhaps being no less generous than in forgiving the people of Middlesex and Surrey the money which he had paid on their behalf , possibly as tribute . |
| 26 | And as he spoke a memory was coming back of words his mother had spoken to him when she had talked of the lore of the golden eagles of Scotland . |
| 27 | Her father accompanied her into the dining-room and though he made a pretence of eating , he barely touched the food on his plate . |