Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alvar Salvadores and his companions bestirred themselves so well that they drove the enemy to their tents , making great mortality among them , and then they turned back , whereat my Cid was well pleased ; but Alvar Salvadores went on , hacking and hewing all before him , for he thought the ladies were looking on , and he pressed forward so far , that being without succour he was taken . |
| 2 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
| 3 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 4 | Ulster 's opposition to Home Rule long pre-dated Law 's leadership and he had rarely even spoken on Irish affairs in parliament before becoming leader . |
| 5 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 6 | And he had so nearly succeeded ! |
| 7 | It was my duty to nurture and encourage only those with potential and he had about as much as a Mike Channon betting tip . |
| 8 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 9 | And he had very nearly succeeded . |
| 10 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 11 | Lizzy had adored her father and he had only ever let her down . |
| 12 | At the cinema , under cover of darkness , he put his arm around her tentatively , but was always ready for rejection , and he had only twice kissed her . |
| 13 | Before the Great War , however , Baden-Powell 's public attitude towards the military significance of the Boy Scouts had been hedged about with all sorts of reservations , and he had always actively disfavoured drill which he thought produced merely mechanical obedience . |
| 14 | And he had never yet directly addressed Melanie by her name or even acknowledged Victoria 's presence . |
| 15 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |
| 16 | His energy just left him and he became slowly more and more bitter . ’ |
| 17 | There were shouts of anger and he became still more excited . |
| 18 | Dr Carrington was trained as a physician and a psychiatrist ; however , particularly as he became more ill , his professional mantle dropped away from him , as is often the case , and he became more simply a sick human . |
| 19 | His journey from the unknown region must have been terrifying — a fragment of his soul , running the land but without benefit of flight or fin … and he came too soon … |
| 20 | His grey whipcord coat with its black velvet collar hung open , and he came quickly across with that purposeful step which was one of the first things she had noticed about him . |
| 21 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 22 | and went straight through the garden and all the the time and all that he 'd spent and he went straight just through the garden and knocked her . |
| 23 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 24 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 25 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 26 | It was a mistake ; her gown fell open , and he went very still , his eyes leaping with fire as he devoured the slender form in front of him . |
| 27 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 28 | And he got bloody well , he were chucked off , booked ! |
| 29 | It was in keeping with the determination of the man , and he 'd probably only held off because those bobbies had to be somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 30 | he could get social security but here they closed the social security bit down in and he 'd nowhere so he came up here , oh he 'd stayed here many time previous to that . |