Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact that he goes on and he thinks his ideas are the ideas . |
| 2 | This belief in the witches power becomes more evident as the play goes on and he comes to rely on them for more . |
| 3 | He put four big suitcases in the car then Minnie and Dympna got in and he drove off . ’ |
| 4 | If the provinces refuse to co-operate with the federal government , or decide to resign en masse , the president could say that government had broken down and he had grounds for sending Mr Sharif packing all over again . |
| 5 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 6 | Wycliffe 's pipe was drawing nicely and he sat relaxed , as though he might stay indefinitely . |
| 7 | I clamber on and he puts his great black dress over my head . |
| 8 | As he looks down and he sees it all , everything has been done . |
| 9 | Hunt , a £150,000 signing from Kettering 22 months ago , scored 14 goals until he was dumped into the reserves by Keegan who added : ‘ He has worked hard , he 's knuckled down and he deserves his place . ’ |
| 10 | The rickshaws moved together and he leaned across and punched his brother affectionately on the biceps . |
| 11 | He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket . |
| 12 | Sudden thought — if I follow him to whatever rat-hole he lives in and he rapes me , in court they 'll say ‘ You did what , Miss Marquis ? |
| 13 | Hill loathed the idea of betting shops , which were legalized in 1960 , but rivals moved in and he followed in 1966 . |
| 14 | He , he , well it was a council house when he moved in and he come to me what 'd be , ten , twelve years since he says , I 've chance to buy that house he says , they want fifteen thousand he says what do you think ? |
| 15 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 16 | I was walking in and he comes past on my bike on his bike , not my bike . |
| 17 | The Angel of Death looks in and he says : ‘ You 've got five minutes to get your clean nightdress on , and arrange your effects , and put the cat out , and tear up that compromising letter , and then I 'll be back for you . ’ |
| 18 | It bounced away and he chased it , and a moment later he bumped into the dark , smelly shape of a tramp . |
| 19 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 20 | his nob drops off and he dies |
| 21 | But the other merely advanced , and when he came up , put out a hand to touch the lady , whereupon our hero struck with all his might at his heart , and the glass splinter entered deeply and he fell to the ground . |
| 22 | In the interval his coach Robert Ellis told Hopper to work harder and he did with a vengeance . |
| 23 | The soldier woke up with a snort ; his head jerked up and he looked at us inquiringly . |
| 24 | Vincent had not tumed up and he wondered what he could possibly say to him when — or if — he did . |
| 25 | So he phoned up and he had to redial two or three times before he started . |
| 26 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 27 | All I can think of is not wakening the baby , so I say OK and he goes ahead . |
| 28 | In July 1978 , his ambitions on the educational front were well stoked up and he took six CSEs . |
| 29 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 30 | His voice petered out and he rolled away from her and lay on his back , his hands clasped behind his head , staring woodenly at the ceiling . |