Example sentences of "and [adv] he [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy : Tried swimming , football , he tried snooker and eventually he got a partner for snooker . |
| 2 | And suddenly he had a maenad in his arms , fighting him , screaming , striking at him , the tears running down her face which fear had made unrecognisable , pushing him away , and when he let her go , for very decency 's sake , because he saw no way to calm her unless he did , she sank on to the sofa , still sobbing and crying , her face hidden in a cushion , her whole body heaving and shaking . |
| 3 | And suddenly he felt a slippage , a letting go . |
| 4 | So Mimi walked out , and suddenly he faced a kind of emotional turmoil he had never before experienced . |
| 5 | And so he made a gesture as if to say , It 's all yours . |
| 6 | But he was n't going to risk going for the green in two — he 's a gambler , but he 's not stupid , not with a one-stroke lead — and so he hit a wedge for his second shot short of the lake and then a 155-yard 9-iron directly over the flag for his approach . |
| 7 | He became impatient with the pace of work there , and moreover felt that gas warfare was unlikely to be used , and so he obtained a post as a superintendent of explosives research at the Armament Research Department in 1942 . |
| 8 | Only two years established , barely thirty-three years old , and already he had a reputation as formidable as his father 's . |
| 9 | He was even kind sometimes , letting old age pensioners have credit if they were short at the end of the week , and once he sent a box of free groceries to a poor woman whose husband had died of pneumonia . |
| 10 | Er and also he had a studio , he specialized , he was very fond of children , he specialized in children 's photos . |
| 11 | Fred 's Barbara had gone out there with her bricklayer husband and now he had a building firm and employed ten men . |
| 12 | A drop of precious Old Spice aftershave had added the final touch , and now he wanted a drink . |
| 13 | But after sensing that the confidence was ebbing away from his opponent after reeling in Wilkinson in the second set , Witt 's delivery became more consistent and appropriately he clinched a place in the quarter-finals with his 11th ace . |
| 14 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 15 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 16 | And then he heard a voice . |
| 17 | And then he heard a rustling sound . |
| 18 | And then he heard a sound he recognized . |
| 19 | He was educated at Lincoln until his mother 's death in 1845 and then he attended a boarding-school in Kibworth , Leicestershire ( 1845–6 ) . |
| 20 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 21 | Boy smiled , and then winced slightly , because his lower lip was split , and then he took a sip of his beer and he smiled sweetly and said , In love . |
| 22 | Forester returned the billspike to the kitchen drawer and the receipts and guarantees to the gun case , and then he took a screwdriver from his canvas roll and unscrewed the cut end of the doorchain from the frame and slipped it into his pocket . |
| 23 | And then he took a step toward her , the dead flashlight still in his hand , and he said , ‘ I 'm sorry , you gave me a scare . |
| 24 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 25 | The first was the traditional Hobday and then he had a tie-back . |
| 26 | And then he had a job , they had a job for him you know , and of course I he did n't want to leave me , Well I said , You can go , I said , it 's alright if I 'm going to sell , I said , that would be alright . |
| 27 | And then he got a job in Tesco 's and stacked turkeys ? |
| 28 | And then he saw a face he recognized . |
| 29 | Every now and then he lifted a finger off the wheel and pointed out some famous bridge or statue or museum . |
| 30 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |