Example sentences of "and he [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a natural thing for them to do so I did n't take any action — told them in no uncertain terms that this man was ill and he eventually came to and everyone was happy then . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He needed no telling twice , but alas the episode was fatal to his position at United Racecourses and he thereupon turned to other activities . |
| 4 | This little ginger one of ours , he 's , he 's a terrier , me uncle looked after a Staff a Staff Bull Terrier and er his name 's Winston and he immediately walked through there as if he owns it , you know , the way they do . |
| 5 | ‘ I gave him a quick flash of my headlights and he immediately slammed on his brakes , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Have you ever heard this , Master Clerk ? ’ and he immediately launched into poetry , quoting an old Scottish prophecy about England : |
| 7 | And he surely called on his affines — his mother 's people , his sister 's husbands , his wife 's brothers — for aid in a crisis if they were near to hand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was at university that he first began to perform , and he later went to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg . |
| 10 | On leaving school , he worked in a chemist 's shop and he later qualified as an apothecary ( LSA ) in 1886 . |
| 11 | His own political standpoint remained obscure and he wisely campaigned on the broad issue of honest government . |
| 12 | Mr Rochester 's mood had suddenly changed , and he clearly wished to be alone . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then he put this on and he instantly transformed into another character who did a mime to a piece of Baroque music . |
| 18 | His next interest was comparative anatomy , and he soon referred to the ‘ celebrated Dr Hunter ’ . |
| 19 | His arrival was inopportune , and he soon withdrew to a Mediterranean island . |
| 20 | The tap-room of the tiny inn was down a deep step and he nearly sprawled on the tiled floor , coming abruptly into the cool darkness . |
| 21 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 22 | In his book , Saturdays were for racing , betting and boozing — nothing else and he rarely strayed beyond the local corner pub . |
| 23 | And he rarely complained during his recuperation from the first back operation , to repair a number of fractures , which looked like being successful when he returned for Middlesex at the start of 1991 and took four for 60 against Somerset with a performance which particularly impressed his own wicket-keeper Paul Farbrace . |
| 24 | Thereafter Lester devoted less and less time to the business , and he finally died in 1980 . |
| 25 | The tower told him which way to taxi , and he finally stopped in a bright ring of lights inside a hangar whose doors closed the moment he shut down his engines . |
| 26 | Mr Major was in the city to open new buildings at Oriel College and he also went on an impromtu walkabout , meeting people in the city centre . |
| 27 | and he also applied to be a servant at the headquarters of Jehovah 's Witnesses in New York in battle , and then nineteen thirty five he was invited to go along |
| 28 | He encouraged his young assistant to study photographic technique in the manner of the great perfectionist , Edward Weston , and he also passed on an appreciation of the beauty of everyday objects . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Oddly for so fluent a man he wrote his sermons and he also prayed with his eyes open , which added to the impact of his public prayer . |