Example sentences of "and [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't worry , young John , ’ he said , to comfort and reassure him . |
| 2 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not frightened of anything ! ’ she protested icily , suppressing a strong urge to stand up and thump him , willing her pulses to slow . |
| 4 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 5 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 6 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 7 | But Howard insisted : ‘ Anyone who believes he can cruise along and think he will automatically be in the side against Halifax will be in for a shock . |
| 8 | But Howard insisted : ‘ Anyone who believes he can cruise along and think he will automatically be in the side against Halifax will be in for a shock . |
| 9 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 10 | The chaplain , crouched on a stool near the fireplace , stared into the flames wringing his hands whilst Rastani , the silent , dark servant , sat with his back to the wall as if he wished the very stones would open and swallow him . |
| 11 | He had been tentatively invited to dinner at Hampstead once or twice , but Dinah had not taken to him , except to mock and imitate him after he had gone . |
| 12 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 13 | If she did n't try and make him behave , no one else would . |
| 14 | We would tread very carefully but we have done this sort of thing before and we would try and make him realise just what he 's doing to himself . ’ |
| 15 | I think I 'd better go home and make him some tea now , he 'll be wondering where I am |
| 16 | It would have been far , far worse for Jason if Linford had not been present to counsel and comfort him . ’ |
| 17 | Nicholas 's arms ached to hold and comfort him but he kept his distance , sitting in an armchair with maximum space between them . |
| 18 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 19 | My brothers 'd be watching his every move , just hoping he 'd put a foot wrong so they could jump in and scrag him . |
| 20 | And he sent them to Bethlehem and said , ‘ Go and search diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him , bring me word again , that I may come and worship him also . ’ |
| 21 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 22 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 23 | Louis and the two girls set out to catch and resecure him . |
| 24 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 25 | Any second now it would break and throw him back into the river . |
| 26 | He gambles that I will not leap down and pursue him along the pavement . |
| 27 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 28 | because we 'll have the cash , we 'll go and buy he said all you need is your amplifier and that did n't he ? |
| 29 | Counsel said she repeated the caller 's number incorrectly to try and alert him something was wrong but this did not appear to work . |
| 30 | Since he is the final authority on the interpretation and enforcement of the rules , the committee members must respect and trust him . |