Example sentences of "and he [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 2 | but at least he does decorate , good morning , he does decorating and things and he helps like that , |
| 3 | and he talks like that and sh what the hell are they saying ! |
| 4 | Sunday 's the only day off and he wakes at 4:30 most mornings … |
| 5 | The mechanisms by which elites maintain their rule is a matter of great interest to Pareto , and he discusses in some detail how the differing kinds of elite ( predominantly those relying on force or consent ) interact and replace one another . |
| 6 | ‘ Hey , Matt , ’ I say to him , ‘ We 're on a roll , let's go with the flow ’ , and he nods like some old prophet in The Ten Commandments . |
| 7 | We are all special to him , and he longs for each of us to enter into the space and privileges of his home . |
| 8 | I sit scratching my head wondering what 's happened , and he puffs on one of those stinking cigars , telling me it was , obvious this would happen right back when I moved that pawn . |
| 9 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |
| 10 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 11 | And he goes to that beer up at er Cross Brampt Chase |
| 12 | ‘ After a day he will know the names of everyone on the set and he goes to great lengths to make sure we all enjoy ourselves , organising lunches and so on . |
| 13 | , I do n't think you 've got anything to worry about , have you seen that advert for Babycham no erm the advert with Babycham , erm , er running on about true romantics and he goes through all the differences his and this woman marrying this guy and she must be and she must be fifty five , and he 's about twenty three , twenty four and Rob turns round the other day and said , she 's got |
| 14 | What 's that film this guy goes round and he 's re really pissed off and he goes into this er he goes into yeah , |
| 15 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 16 | And he goes like that and throws a laser . |
| 17 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 18 | and he , and he does and , and he does over that 's big and that 's small |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The voice of conscience is thundering in his soul and he stands before this huge crowd of people . |
| 21 | Reiner reviews the studies on police typifications of the public and he focuses on seven which are identified in the literature — ‘ goad-class villains ’ , people so powerless that they are ‘ police property ’ , the ‘ rubbish ’ , ‘ challengers ’ , ‘ disarmers ’ , ‘ do-gooders ’ , and ‘ politicians ’ ( 1985 : 94–7 ) . |
| 22 | His arguments are fast-moving but inexact , and he engages in some wild flourishes of Hegelian grammar : ‘ Writing , in short , does not ‘ reproduce' ’ a reality beyond itself , nor does it ‘ ‘ reduce' ’ that reality . |
| 23 | how much it is and he starts at five pound a bag . |
| 24 | Erm he goes round the pubs and he agitates on these lads . |
| 25 | He is famed for his gentle demeanour and sophisticated manners , and he dresses in comfortable blue jeans , coloured shirt and tennis shoes . |
| 26 | ‘ Jimmy Montgomery comes in one day a week to coach the goalkeepers , and he raves about young Adrian Swan . |
| 27 | this this arch this this architect because this bloke is particularly interested in it and he deals with historic buildings and things like that . |
| 28 | Gusfield does not suggest , however , that all moral reform movements are identical in approach and he distinguishes between two basic types . |
| 29 | And he returns to that one angry , unsigned letter . |
| 30 | And he walks into this brothel and , there 's this prostitute and well business is not going well |