Example sentences of "and he [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay . |
| 2 | He has vilified Simon Bates with a campaign that amounts to persecution and he flies into a howling rage every time he hears Sing Something Simple ( R2 ) . |
| 3 | She dropped the camera from her face as the lens filled with his anger , and he receded to a safe distance from her ; but he was still bearing down , yelling , ‘ What the fuck is going on ? |
| 4 | His eyes were wild , and he blew on a hunting horn . |
| 5 | His eyes opened in alarm , but before he could say anything his concentration lapsed and he dropped like a stone , vanishing behind the far end of the table . |
| 6 | And he dropped in a twenty seven inch Sony this morning . |
| 7 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 8 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 9 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 10 | ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant . |
| 11 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 12 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 13 | Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail . |
| 14 | He was dressed Yek style in a loose tunic and breeches , and he had on a surcoat which was stiff with gold embroidery . |
| 15 | and he had over a thousand , one hundred a month |
| 16 | And he talks of a European home from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 17 | And he talks like a translation . ’ |
| 18 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 19 | D. T. Timins was one of their eager reporters , and he began with a visit to the London and South-Western 's Nine Elms Station . |
| 20 | Froebe 's eyes opened weakly , and he coughed in a huge racking spasm . |
| 21 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 22 | A greater than these , or any earlier German composer , was to make his debut with a Primo libro de madrigali ( Venice , 1611 ) , but this 26 year-old pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli , ‘ Henricus Sagittarius ’ ( Henrich Schutz ) , was to work almost entirely in other fields and he belongs to a later |
| 23 | Without trust , ’ and he came to a standstill and tipped his chin into the air , the thought still forming . |
| 24 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 25 | Mike Towers , with a background of newspaper journalism — he 'd worked for the Evening World in Bristol — assumed control of " Here Today " and he went for a harder , more newsy approach . |
| 26 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 27 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 28 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 29 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 30 | An unaccustomed self-pity overtook him , sitting in the straw , and he went into a trance , thinking of all the ways he lost out , trying to think of one positive factor in his favour . |