Example sentences of "and [verb] his [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice quivered with emotion , he sniffed and wiped his eyes and took some time to recover . |
| 2 | The boys let him go and Nick found his handkerchief in his breast pocket and wiped his face and said gently , ‘ It 's all right , Mister Johnny , all over now , let's go and find Hepzibah . ’ |
| 3 | Nicholas stood , watching the place where the walls met the sky , and the towers , and the galleries , and unslung his bow and bent it . |
| 4 | He brushed down his hair and straightened his clothing and made his way down the narrow stairs towards the street . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I do n't know what we 're going to do about that , ’ he said and sucked his teeth and shook his grey head and expressed dismay that a leg had been knocked off the chair . |
| 6 | It was Twomey 's province , a dark , three-cornered place with a sink , where he cleaned Dada 's hunting clothes , scrubbing boots and breeches in winter time , and boned his shoes and brushed his clothes all the year round . |
| 7 | Balor grinned at Snodgrass and smacked his lips and grabbed the cask of mead and thought that had n't the Humans strange , mimsing appetites to be sure . |
| 8 | The bed was too narrow and Oliver muttered in his sleep and ground his teeth and thrashed about with his fists . |
| 9 | He pulled out and turned Richard over and lifted his hips and entered him again . |
| 10 | ‘ If you would but use her , ’ said David , and turned his back and went to stare from the window at the frosty strand and the shifting , misty sea . |
| 11 | Again they sat and looked silently back at him , and again he coughed and turned his head and said a little gruffly , ‘ Dr. George Briant , ’ and sat down . |
| 12 | With the consent of the Bishop of Ely , who was Edward Wynn , the Bishop of Durham came to Howfield and confirmed his father and ministered the sacrament to him . |
| 13 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 14 | And he shivered energetically and swung his arms and clapped his shoulders . |
| 15 | Then he felt her lashes stir at his cheek , and raised his head and kissed the place where they lay , and then her brow , her throat and her chin , while her lips went on smiling . |
| 16 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 17 | ‘ But you can remember it all ? ’ said Fenella , anxiously , and Pumlumon pushed his hat well back and scratched his head and said once he got it going , it would follow as the night the day , or maybe it was the other way round . |
| 18 | Tom Bowden fell over in his bathroom , drunk , in 1975 and crushed his throat and died , Mr Gray told the court . |
| 19 | This man stopped real quick and blew his horn and shouted summat at me . |
| 20 | We were shooting the film in North Wales in a terrible wet month in a tiny village and he smoked and read and did his crosswords and smoked . |
| 21 | She punched his face and kicked his legs and tore at his abdomen . |
| 22 | Blindly , Alan ran to his room , where he beat and punched his bed and cried aloud in a rage like a child . |
| 23 | He dragged at his shirt and ruffled his hair and stamped his feet an swung his arms about . |
| 24 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 25 | And the old man arose and embraced his son and placed him above him at the table , saying , that he who had brought home that head should be the head of the house of Layn Calvo . |
| 26 | And closed his eyes and tried to sleep . |