Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad . |
| 4 | And he kicked both the candle and the hand into the undergrowth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But something in his brother 's petition alerted him , and he pushed aside the quire of his new score . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | His vision was direct , concrete and simple and he recorded faithfully the accidents of every-day life . |
| 9 | Sadleir is unique amongst Arabian explorers , for his journey was involuntary and he loathed both the place and its ‘ turbulent barbarians ’ . |