Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] [art] [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 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 3 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 7 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 8 | He was familiar with the mortuary , and he knew where the body he had last seen lying in the mud would be . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 12 | The smell of incense strengthened and he saw ahead a haze of gold where the gleaming mosaics of the apse stained the air and the great figure of Christ in glory , his wounded hands stretched out , glared down the nave with cavernous eyes . |
| 13 | As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad . |
| 14 | And he brought in a secretary who was at least three-quarters human . |
| 15 | And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama . |
| 16 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 17 | And he kicked both the candle and the hand into the undergrowth . |
| 18 | One player says he 's only had his cycle this term and finds it very diifficult and he falls off a lot and hurts himself . |
| 19 | Then the Doctor began to sing ; he was a great man at a party and he warmed up the crowd no end . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | FitzAlan and de Villiers were glaring at each other across her , but as she made a move to sit up Isabel saw the scowl fade from Simon 's face and he reached down a hand to steady her . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was , nevertheless , elected to the see of the Auvergne , and he took over the administration of the diocese . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that |
| 28 | A woman came up with a red balloon and asked him to autograph it , and he took out a fountain pen and commenced a squeaky signature . |
| 29 | And he took out the keys and threw them onto the bonnet . |
| 30 | The surrounding country then rallied to him , and he wiped out a detachment of Ras Kassa 's troops ; three hundred prisoners were mutilated and died . |