Example sentences of "and he [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ conversion ’ came early in life and he taught in the Sunday School of a local chapel . |
| 2 | And he er , went to work one morning and they he , they says to him you 're wanted in the office , and he came in the office and he was one of the gaffers , you know |
| 3 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 4 | The Headmaster still had on his gown and he flapped in the wind like a bat as he charged across the grass . |
| 5 | So he went through all the glasses until finally they said to me , ‘ Take yours off , ’ and they fitted Rock Hudson perfectly , and he looked in the mirror and said , ‘ I think I look rather good in glasses . ’ |
| 6 | I remember one night he come here and ooh it was a hard hard frost and he was and he slept in the barn , and he went in and he wanted a dram of water to have his drink through the night , and it was hard hard frost , and the water trough for the horses was down here , of course it when he |
| 7 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 8 | He was regularly attending to the pumps on Sundays for which he was paid 1/ the " stem " , or day , and he assisted in the workings by wheelbarrowing and other miscellaneous jobs . |
| 9 | ‘ His name was Charlie Mears ; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow , and he lived in the north of London , coming into the City every day to work in a bank . ’ |
| 10 | But insolvency again intervened and he died in the Fleet prison in 1683 . |
| 11 | The wind was freshening and he took in the mizzen-sail . |
| 12 | ‘ Nearby there was an old hermit — Servanus , who became St Servanus — and he took in the child and over the years the child became his dearest friend , his Myn Ghu or Mungo . |
| 13 | That gave Fallon the overlap and he scored in the corner . |
| 14 | ‘ I stopped a policeman in the High Street and he radioed in the information I gave him . |
| 15 | His expectations of the bird life were high , and he revelled in the sense of anticipation that gripped him before his departure . |
| 16 | And he sat in the armchair on the other side of the room , in the shadows . |
| 17 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 18 | He c he got him off did n't he , and he sat in the thing . |
| 19 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 20 | From 1920 onwards they lived in Bangor , and he mapped in the Arvon district , which was a natural extension of his studies of Anglesey and which became his final geological work . |
| 21 | Peregrine 's attention was captured by this manoeuvre and he swivelled in the chair to watch another skier zig-zagging down towards the hut . |
| 22 | ‘ Hope he 's had the sense to go inside , ’ he mumbled and he headed in the direction of home . |
| 23 | The Shah detested the way in which mossadeq rather than he was coming to symbolize Iran , and he tried in the summer of 1952 to remove him from office . |
| 24 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 25 | Jan raised her hand to Darren , and he collapsed in the chair with a pout like Marilyn Monroe . |
| 26 | Look ! ’ and he pointed in the direction of two nuns surrounded by a horde of children . |
| 27 | and he stood in the kitchen but he said nothing |
| 28 | Somehow he 'd managed to trace the block where Pavel lived , and he stood in the stairwell and called her name . |
| 29 | His disappointment had turned to joy and he leapt in the air , relieved the Bookman had escaped . |
| 30 | She butted him in the chest with her head and he slipped in the mud and fell on his back . |