Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he proceeded to do so , off the top of his head at considerable length , to the admiration of all present . |
| 2 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 3 | It was not easy to climb along it and he had to go slowly . |
| 4 | ‘ The finger got stuck inside his nose , ’ Matilda said , ‘ and he had to go around like that for a week . |
| 5 | Lumberjack came leaping around his front wheel , and he had to go slow . |
| 6 | But then er he works late last night and he had to go in again this morning . |
| 7 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 8 | Get , get well away and he , and he had to go back |
| 9 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 10 | The shaikh complained that he had to leave in a hurry ; his opposite number had left by plane , and he had to drive urgently to Kufra for it was essential that as many people as possible should turn up , to emphasize the seriousness of the affair . |
| 11 | They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial . |
| 12 | The Duke 's position here was weak since he possessed no lands or castles of his own and he had to rely solely on his rights as the acknowledged overlord . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 14 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 15 | He was driving well , perhaps too well , as if there was one perfect speed for every individual metre of road and he had to slow down or speed up to reach it . |
| 16 | And he let her go quickly , so that she stumbled , and he had to reach out to steady her . |
| 17 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 18 | Then in 1878 he started to get swelling of the legs , and he had to give in . |
| 19 | The debate dragged on in his absence and he had to wait nearly three hours for the result . |
| 20 | He says he was shattered by the news that his kidneys had failed and he had to build up his hopes again . |
| 21 | It came away from the wall and he had to grab on to a crate to stop himself overbalancing . |
| 22 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 23 | When he did finally get to his feet his legs were unsteady and he had to stick close to the tables for support on his way to the door . |
| 24 | Again she went alone , because the Goad case came along and he had to hunt down a gangland killer . |
| 25 | Chris said she laughed and he had to rush out of the house or he 'd have killed her … . |
| 26 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 27 | At the second check , at the end of the wire tunnel , his name was searched for again , and he had to hand in his H area card in exchange for a temporary pass , and a phone call was made ahead . |
| 28 | There was a forceful thrusting kind of need about his actions now , and he began to fumble rather clumsily , with the buttons on the front of her light , cotton dress . |
| 29 | He climbed a short distance up the curve of the dome , then his feet lost their purchase and he began to slide back down again . |
| 30 | He seemed to know just where to tap , and how hard , and how long for , and bit by bit the boy 's lungs cleared and he began to breathe more easily . |