Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lord 'Awke , the captain — well , 'e was a lord as was n't drunk as a … anyways , 'e turns round and says , ‘ Peel , yer orft . ’ |
| 2 | He turns around and listens . |
| 3 | And if he turns round and says owt , I 'll say , Ian if were n't for me your kids would be naked . |
| 4 | He says that to me and then he turns round and says that they were all taking the piss out of Gemma because she 's got thunder thighs and she has n't , that 's the whole point ! |
| 5 | that 's , that 's gon na happen and the fellows go along with it like when Tony first decided to move and that I thought oh great he 's found a place back in Basingstoke you know , we went and looked at them and everything and he turns round and changes his mind or he 's in the , you know he 's worried or nervous |
| 6 | The window 's shut and he turns round and looks at me . |
| 7 | So what does he do ? he turns round and comes back . |
| 8 | He turns back and tries to stop her , but fails . |
| 9 | He goes downstairs and goes up , up . |
| 10 | an engagement very first thing in the morning , my Lord but Mr suggested , he goes upstairs and tries to find a , finds a |
| 11 | He goes through and puts circles round everything and ticks off . |
| 12 | The man will then , at least have to get the consent of the woman before he goes off and sells their joint property . |
| 13 | He eats properly ; he exercises regularly ; he reads the occasional book ; he talks to people regularly and listens ; he thinks ; he goes home and forgets about work problems all things that lesser mortals sacrifice when under stress . |
| 14 | Why , you , he goes home and comes back full of the Scottish accent . |
| 15 | So if you see Ron , tell him if he goes back and keeps shut-up , he 'll only have the AWOL to answer for . |
| 16 | So he goes out and starts the number and I followed with the guitar intro — you know , the tapping thing — and it turned the whole gig around . |
| 17 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 18 | He sits down and writes me a receipt in the shadow of a sign which says ‘ You do n't have to be crazy here but it helps ’ . |
| 19 | Just before the brutal end he laughs hysterically and says the words you most dread : ‘ You are fired . ’ |
| 20 | He dumps forward and squints at me . |
| 21 | ( He looks round and sees he is alone . ) |
| 22 | He looks around and stops smiling . |
| 23 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 24 | He looks away and takes another dry biscuit . |
| 25 | He looks out and comes back quickly . |
| 26 | I suspect that Pound is rueful at best when he looks down and sees us industriously annotating out of Sir Edward Coke Canto 107 , without noticing that the English language is in that canto handled with none of the sensitivity that would make those labours worthwhile . |
| 27 | He looks down and sees red fur . |
| 28 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 29 | He does n't believe in any other world but the one he lives in and sees . |
| 30 | He glances up and sees her expression . |