Example sentences of "and he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 2 | The cigarette had burned away between his fingers and he dropped it hastily into a cup on the tray beside him . |
| 3 | To be quite frank , this cloak and dagger stuff is beneath him , and he feels it keenly . |
| 4 | His favourite was in bright print patchwork , and he wore it dead straight , one inch above his eyebrows . |
| 5 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 6 | It was an exciting story and he told it well . |
| 7 | It was not her humour , and he knew it very well . |
| 8 | so of course he had a last slurp of and he spit it all over everywhere |
| 9 | It does help and he twisted it so that you can put your ornaments there and there you see |
| 10 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 11 | Oh I must n't lose that , my grandson bought me that in Greece Cos I 'm a pipe smoker and er , but it 's not a Zippo , and he got it very cheap English you see , but I 've knackered him you see , because I , he thinks I 've still got that , but I , I , I bought a Zippo one , and it 's , it 's the hippo , the Zippo one that 's in there the other one was fucking useless , well , it lasted for a couple of months , a few months , but er |
| 12 | His nose was obviously irritating him and he banged it both with his paw and on the stone road until it actually bled . |
| 13 | Cos he picked it up and he gets it bad tempered doing this . |
| 14 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 15 | Er we have n't had to see anybody about that and he sent us a letter saying that he 'd like to see us and we went and he says it there might not be a second inquest . |
| 16 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 17 | Not many people can cook a three-course meal and lecture at the same time , but Dr Peter Barham can and he does it brilliantly . |
| 18 | Yes yes and he 's such a nice man and he does it so willingly if he can . |
| 19 | And he does it now does he ? |
| 20 | It 's very windy , of course , so he decides it 's a 2-iron to get to the green and he slams it superbly but it misses right , just off the green . |
| 21 | That sketch was written by Harold Pinter and he played it straight the way Pinter wrote it , with the nuances that Pinter intended , the pauses in the right place . |
| 22 | It had a 6.8 Chrysler engine , an aluminium body , and he drove it very fast . |
| 23 | got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate . |
| 24 | Tom then hit his tee-shot in a fury and he struck it further than I go on holidays . |
| 25 | And that a lot better dog food , that er what he had and he woofs it all does n't he ? |
| 26 | Stuart had a book about cars at home and he recognised it straight away . |
| 27 | The chambermaid brought his tea and he drank it avidly . |
| 28 | A second maid brought Paul a glass of madeira , and he drank it thankfully , for his throat was dry . |
| 29 | Richard had the opposite experience : to him English was the foreign language , the tongue of the occupying race , and he conquered it completely . |
| 30 | He argued , quoting The Green Book , that all children should have the opportunity of education , and he thought it most improbable these girls would have this if they had to travel to Zawiya . |