Example sentences of "and he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine divorced him and he married the Italian girl , Yolanda . |
| 2 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 3 | ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’ |
| 4 | Faced with a whole series of books to write , Swainson had the choice of simply following Cuvier 's system , which was coming out in an English version at the same time , or of doing something new ; and he chose the latter . |
| 5 | ‘ Ta , ’ said Willie gratefully and he touched the soft wool of the pullover . |
| 6 | And he touched the thick-ribbed beer mug , brought it to his lips and drank again , sour , brown English beer . |
| 7 | He recognised the man with the white handlebar moustache sitting high in a ridiculous Japanese jeep , Health Physics branch , and he heard the sharp horn blast before he saw that the road ahead of him was clear . |
| 8 | The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it . |
| 9 | He felt great , he worked with class and he had the right attitude . |
| 10 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
| 11 | and his mate had one and he had the other one and he said I 'll never be able to use them he said and they 're in the way , can you do anything with them ? |
| 12 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 13 | And he had the strange feeling that he was moving in a dream . |
| 14 | Then his aunt 's jewels disappeared , and he had the oddest sensation of wanting Charity to have done it . |
| 15 | Like his sister he too was dressed all in black and he had the same habit of rubbing his hands together . |
| 16 | His skin had a yellowy tinge and he had the same deepset black eyes as his mother and grandmother . |
| 17 | Sir Walter Scott , however , had no such constraints upon him fifty years later , and he had the added advantage of seeing Lady Grange 's journal . |
| 18 | His uncle , John George , owned a highly successful cotton agency which was one of the largest in Manchester , and he had the wealthy lifestyle that his nephew craved . |
| 19 | When Bobby Charlton was in the team that won the World Cup , they shared £28,000 — and he had the worst haircut in the world . |
| 20 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
| 21 | His iron-grey hair was parted in the middle and he had the mutton-chop whiskers of a bygone age . |
| 22 | And he condemned the Liberal Democrats for refusing to accept the need for minimum wages . |
| 23 | ‘ Bobby was the people 's captain and was extremely proud to lead his club and country and he achieved the ultimate goal of raising the World Cup in the summer of 1966 . |
| 24 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 25 | Gaunt was determined to defend Wycliffe , and he ordered the new Marshal , Henry Percy , to arrest anyone who opposed his heterodox protégé . |
| 26 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 27 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
| 28 | Close by , at SPY HILL , pentices were remembered by the late Mr Armer , who was a neighbour , and he told the present owner of his recollections . |
| 29 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 30 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |