Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't solve Ireland 's problems with a gun , ’ their father had told them and he had repeated so often the words of Archbishop Paul Cullen , one of Ireland 's great clerics , that they were still fresh in Father Brendan 's mind . |
| 2 | Portman Square ? she had asked , and he had laughed almost boyishly . |
| 3 | There was a forceful thrusting kind of need about his actions now , and he began to fumble rather clumsily , with the buttons on the front of her light , cotton dress . |
| 4 | He seemed to know just where to tap , and how hard , and how long for , and bit by bit the boy 's lungs cleared and he began to breathe more easily . |
| 5 | Derek Green says it was much harder than last year … the streams were like rivers and he got swept away once |
| 6 | And he looked liked really just ready to get up and do his lovely fresh face you know . |
| 7 | He had been a scholarship boy himself , and he wished to ensure as far as possible that families without financial resources should be enabled to send their boys to the School . |
| 8 | Lucie 's blacked eye was tight closed , and he seemed to take particularly unkindly to the bumps . |