Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 2 | He was stocky and broad-shouldered and he had thick black eyebrows . |
| 3 | And he had even more reason to now . |
| 4 | Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece . |
| 5 | There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard . |
| 6 | His own father had died when he was four and he had only dim memories of him . |
| 7 | The firing range which he was running was not to be fully operational for several months and he had too many soldiers to employ usefully . |
| 8 | He has not fought since he lost to Tyson in February and he indicated only last week that he would be prepared to fight again . |
| 9 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 10 | Hypnosis and electroconvulsive therapy were tried but had no effect , and he became heavily dependent on tranquillizers . |
| 11 | His ability to make use of winds and air currents improved each day , and he became increasingly skilled at spotting movement and danger . |
| 12 | At first he wore the crown he had found only occasionally , but later it was always on his scarred green skull and he became increasingly silent and brooding . |
| 13 | In 1962 he remained concerned about America 's role in Europe , via NATO , he disliked President Kennedy 's ‘ Grand Design ’ for the improvement of Atlantic co-operation , and he became gravely upset when the British purchased a new nuclear weapons system , ‘ Polaris ’ from Washington . |
| 14 | So I asked him again , asked if I could help , and he became very agitated . |
| 15 | Wh when he went into erm , when he went into Strasbourg with the garrison , he was very well received , because he was an officer , he was a gentleman , he was a musician , he was a composer , and he became very friendly with the Mayor of Strasbourg , whose name was Dietrich a very German sounding name , but do n't forget that Strasbourg is very near to the German border . |
| 16 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 17 | He was the man of the house , you see , since my father was dead , and he became very strict when I was around fourteen or fifteen . |
| 18 | 10 And he became very hungry , and would have eaten : but while they made ready , he fell into a trance . |
| 19 | I took out my wallet , and he became more helpful . |
| 20 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 21 | I could not understand him — he talked so much , and he knew so many books . |
| 22 | He had done all the sums , and he knew only one answer fitted , but still something snagged . |
| 23 | And he ate so much Tesco 's must have thought we kept a stegosaurus at home . |
| 24 | if Derek and he went away last weekend he perhaps stuffed it in here but then he drops it in when he finds it |
| 25 | Once we got it off we showed him around the fire appliances and he went away happy , ’ said John . |
| 26 | He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to call him by his real name Coy Luther and he got real mad . ’ |
| 28 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you see , it was partly my fault , because I just kept saying you were n't in and he got very abusive because he did n't believe me . |
| 30 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |