Example sentences of "and he [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 2 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 3 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 4 | In the forests of Chippenham and Melksham , Dean , Feckenham , Peak and Windsor the warden had also the custody of royal manors in the forest , and he had to see that they were properly stocked and managed . |
| 5 | ( In fact , with so many changes of unit , no military tailor could keep up with him , and he had felt that his old Ayrshire Yeomanry full uniform was the smartest kit for the occasion . ) |
| 6 | The Shah had always preferred Republicans to Democrats and he had felt that Carters human rights programme was in some senses directed against him . |
| 7 | When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister . |
| 8 | He had , correctly , seen the civil rights movement as a realisation of one aspect of the new republican strategy and he had observed that the turn to legal and open political work had not resulted in an elimination of the IRA 's military capacity . |
| 9 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 10 | I had said nothing and he had assumed that we were engaged , telling his mother that night and mine the following morning . |
| 11 | He had telephoned the present Archdeacon of Woodborough , a valued friend , the friend who had indeed suggested and supported his application , and he had said that he simply did not know why Peter had been turned down , he had no idea . |
| 12 | He fought his own despairs and his own bitternesses , and he had believed that he had built up an inner tranquillity and a strength , so that he was armoured against the lure of any woman . |
| 13 | Newens 's views were perhaps influenced by his contacts with Ceauşescu and he had written or edited at least three books about Ceauşescu : Nicolae Ceauşescu — the Man , His Ideas and the Achievements on the Road to Socialism ( which appeared in at least three editions between 1972 and 1978 to satisfy popular demand ) , Talking with Nicolae Ceauşescu , and Nicolae Ceauşescu — The Effort to Create a Modern Romania . |
| 14 | His plaster had been changed , and he had written whilst it dried . |
| 15 | On Dec. 2 Federal Secretary for National Defence Gen. Veljko Kadijevic had declared that republican control of these units marked the beginning of republican armies , and he had threatened that the JNA would intervene to disarm them . |
| 16 | In the morning he would go to the embassy , fall on his knees before her , beg her to return , to forgive him — anything — because he loved her , and love , if it were true , not only conquered all , but accepted all — ‘ Love is not love , Which alters when it alteration finds , ’ Shakespeare had said in his greatest sonnet , and he had discovered that for himself — but too late , too late . |
| 17 | There has to be a reason why , all the male baboons who have got no particular self interest in , well there 's no obvious sign , in a fight between two youngsters , nevertheless he intervened to stop it , and he had realized that the reason , well he ultimately realized , development of parental investment , the reason they intervened to stop it , is that parents do not have the same self interest as their offspring do , when it comes to behaviour of offspring . |
| 18 | And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions . |
| 19 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 20 | And he had to admit that it was a clever plan to winkle Nader Nadirpur out of his hiding place and force him to tell the truth . |
| 21 | Only then had he realised how lonely she had been , how great his neglect of her , and he had cried and held her tightly . |
| 22 | She went on walking , and he had to run and catch up when she began speaking again . |
| 23 | But it had not eluded Jack Stone , and he had thought that Stone was as prepared to pay his time in prison , in order know return to that normality , as Chrissie was to pay her time in waiting for him . |
| 24 | He had thought he had not cared what became of him in the battle and he had thought that , when it was over , he would return to the Wolfwood and that the creatures amongst whom he had lived would return , also . |
| 25 | ‘ He knew if he had said he was an alcoholic there would be an enormous amount of interest and he had to gauge when he could cope with that . ’ |
| 26 | And he had impressed that print with careful precision — he or whoever it was . |
| 27 | And he had looked and behaved like a wild Indian , Carew thought with a feeling of wonder . |
| 28 | He says that he would not get on so well with her if he had his meals with her , but as he lives quite separately they are very friendly and he likes to know that they are near if he wants company . ’ |
| 29 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 30 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |