Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Parliament he had been associated with a party which was out of favour with the King , and as Public Orator he had lauded the policy of peace when Charles , then Prince of Wales , was determined to make war on Spain . |
| 2 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 3 | It was possible that recovery might be organised , and for that reason he would remain where he was at least until morning . |
| 4 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 5 | One day , he thought , we shall probably know each other , and for that reason he turned away from the window , not feeling quite equal to meeting the unashamed curiosity of their glances as they came nearer . |
| 6 | Broomhead 's artfulness was working like a treat , and for good effect he rubbed his leg . |
| 7 | It was the responsibility of the Justices of the forest to see that the Forest rights of the Crown were not usurped , and for this purpose he made frequent use of sworn inquiries by the foresters and verderers and juries of knights and free men of the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | His diminutive figure was always to be seen during battles with the opposition , and for this reason he gained exceptionally early admission to the Rowdies as a kind of unofficial mascot . |
| 9 | And for some reason he found himself drawing a Spitfire . |
| 10 | He attended a different school , had his own friends , and for some reason he seldom played with my crowd . |
| 11 | ‘ Shadwell has a real theatre and for some reason he likes you . |
| 12 | Six years ago , her own bewildering awareness of him , the way it had made her feel threatened , must have been obvious to him when his simple presence , a glance in her direction , the sound of his voice , had been enough to unnerve her ; but these days she answered back — and for some reason he was hell-bent on punishing her for what he believed her to be , humiliating her with constant reminders of his contempt . |
| 13 | But he listened and learnt and for next winter he has harnessed Hollywood-style glamour to make evening wear that really works , adapting his tailoring to sequined , beaded and embroidered jackets of unbelievable opulence . |
| 14 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 15 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 16 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 17 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 18 | One was the failure of the self- regulatory body I M R O and the second one was really the fact that he was able to change his financial year end from April ninety-one to December ninety-one and during that period he was able to do things with those erm those funds in his accounts and er and really there was , there was no check on that , and I do n't see that the that was in er Good would have changed much of that situation at that end . |
| 19 | And during this time he must have trodden pretty much every footpath there . |
| 20 | In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend . |
| 21 | Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings . |
| 22 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 23 | And after mutual agreement he went . |
| 24 | During this period and against this background he wrote the poems of Raiders Dawn and the short stories of The Last Inspection , both published in 1942 . |
| 25 | He wins the pools and with that money he buys an isolated country cottage , where he plans to keep Miranda until she falls in love with him . |
| 26 | Leader Gaitskell , if I lived in Britain I would vote Conservative ! ’ — and with that remark he and his party departed towards their fleet of cars . |
| 27 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 28 | His shoulder and arm were broken , and with great difficulty he managed to climb on the back of one of his brave rescuers , and followed by the rest of the herd , reached his home . |
| 29 | Also he accumulated extensive statistics of luminosities of galaxies and other parameters , and with notable resourcefulness he estimated their masses . |
| 30 | She did as she was told , and with surgical precision he slashed four inches off the legs of the jeans . |