Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] he [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 2 | She 'd been surprised and off-balance on hearing his voice , but her subsequent enthusiasm and willingness to help him out had been well-feigned . |
| 3 | None of his uncles and aunts would look after the little Jovo , so the kindly brother and sister took him in , Stoja and Stojane . |
| 4 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 5 | My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness . |
| 6 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 7 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 8 | Fiver and Acorn followed him out and fell to nibbling at a patch of sainfoin . |
| 9 | Thus , although Franco 's own Minister of Industry and Commerce told him in early 1949 that , without more foreign aid , the Spanish economy could survive for six months at most , the Caudillo insisted that Spain had no need of the international community . |
| 10 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 11 | His mum and dad kicked him out , they did n't get on together . |
| 12 | His work for both king and pope marked him out , along with the bishop of Lincoln , for the unpopular role of chief assessor and collector of the famous papal taxes initiated in 1291–2 for the king 's planned but unexecuted crusade . |