Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time he was instructed to raise money by conducting sales of wood from the king 's demesne , and he carried out the king 's policy regarding mining in the forest , which wavered between a desire to increase the Forest revenues and concern lest the vert be destroyed . |
| 2 | I mean , one of the chaps we brought home had a er — he was only in his middle thirties and he had actually the stress of being held captive . |
| 3 | He knew in each piece exactly where the real climaxes were and he avoided completely the kind of hurrying or dragging which ruins so many performances . |
| 4 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 5 | He was familiar with the mortuary , and he knew where the body he had last seen lying in the mud would be . |
| 6 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 7 | yeah , and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got , I said what do you really think , I played a free hand , you mean mum and dad 's hand |
| 8 | As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad . |
| 9 | And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama . |
| 10 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 11 | And he kicked both the candle and the hand into the undergrowth . |
| 12 | Then the Doctor began to sing ; he was a great man at a party and he warmed up the crowd no end . |
| 13 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 14 | Professor Uitsmijter has suggested what at first seems a crazy solution to my translation problems : I place my tape-recorder next to the phone , he records the laibon 's words in Nairobi and he faxes back the translation . |
| 15 | He did not see any sign of the runaway animals but later on that night the local policeman called on him and he took over the task of keeping a look out . |
| 16 | He was , nevertheless , elected to the see of the Auvergne , and he took over the administration of the diocese . |
| 17 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 18 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 19 | And he took out the keys and threw them onto the bonnet . |
| 20 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 21 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 22 | ‘ My son lives in England and he saved up the vouchers to buy the ticket and posted it to me . |
| 23 | And he wondered where the power came from , and why he trusted it . |
| 24 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 25 | Luce slid off his knee , and he picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 26 | Her finger jabbed at the picture of the man , not quite touching it , and he picked up the difference in the gestures immediately . |
| 27 | But something in his brother 's petition alerted him , and he pushed aside the quire of his new score . |
| 28 | Like Weber , Durkheim was hostile to Marxism , both as a theory of society and as a political doctrine , but he was rather more sympathetic to a reformist kind of socialism , although he seems to have conceived it exclusively in a national context , and he dismissed entirely the idea of working-class internationalism ( Lukes , 1973 , pp. 32–7 ) . |
| 29 | Jenny dozed off and he switched on the autopilot . |
| 30 | The silence returned , and he switched on the light . |