Example sentences of "and he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales .
2 ‘ Have you ever heard this , Master Clerk ? ’ and he immediately launched into poetry , quoting an old Scottish prophecy about England :
3 It was at university that he first began to perform , and he later went to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg .
4 Dooley 's personal tragedy was so awful — he was so young and talented and he took the blow with such heroic , idiotic stoicism ( ‘ It 's my one regret that the ball did n't finish in the net ’ ) — that a substantial sum was raised for him and he later went to work for the club .
5 He slept on park benches , in packing boxes , and he even slept in holes in the ground with a strip of linoleum for a blanket .
6 On the English side Hugh Calveley , having at first sold his services in Spain to du Guesclin , changed sides and served the Black Prince there in 1367 ; later he was to join John of Gaunt , and he even worked for Richard II in France .
7 With no patron , and numbering himself among men of ‘ retired lives , and small-grown fortunes ’ , his progress in the church was painfully slow , and he probably remained at Duxford until 1647 .
8 Normally Peter played at outside-right , but a combination of events led him to have several useful and productive spells at centre-forward , and he also played at inside-right and at outside-left for us .
9 Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday .
10 In separate talks the US President met Presidents Yel'tsin and Nazarbaev , and he also travelled to Kiev to address the Ukrainian parliament ; this was a recognition that Soviet foreign policy had become multipolar even before the USSR had been replaced by its constituent republics .
11 He earned his living with exhibitions of his work , in Ambleside at home and in Keswick , where he rented a room for the purpose ; and he also exhibited in Manchester on occasions .
12 As the ground had dried out it was also a surprise that he should go so quickly on it and he just tired at Valentine 's second-time .
13 He was clearly far more remote from the succession than William III , or at least his wife , had been but he was a Protestant and he duly landed at Greenwich on 18 September 1714 , with two mistresses in tow , both very plain .
14 His hands trembled and he constantly looked to Louise for advice and support .
15 He bought a country estate at Knowle , Warwickshire , for £10,000 and he twice served as mayor of Warwick , in 1713–14 and 1728–9 .
16 And he always dressed in rags .
17 ‘ He was a remarkably intellectual man with a rare sense of humour , and he really cared about people . ’
18 So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change .
19 There is a story in La Scala that a very good singer once opened the door of a room where the maestro was preparing a lady for a little love-making , and he never worked for Toscanini again .
20 His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital .
21 Papa said that it was a good servant , but a bad master , and he never joined in temperance rant .
22 They considered the outburst as less serious than the disgraceful row at Cambridge University earlier in the season when Ramprakash launched a disgusting four letter tirade against the students ' Marcus Wight , and he almost came to blows with John Emburey when the stand-in skipper intervened .
23 Further , Guntram feared that Brunhild would contact the " pretender " , and he actually wrote to Gundovald in her name , in order to trick him into disbanding his troops .
24 I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing .
25 In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on .
26 From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield .
27 She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting .
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