Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was aware of making an effort to pass this question off as casually as possible and thereby knew he had failed . |
| 2 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 3 | Jack enjoyed this work , but with so many less experienced pilots going to fight and not returning he wanted to do more than circuits and bumps ! |
| 4 | ‘ You lost more in the war than we did , ’ Maxim said , and instantly felt he 'd pitched it too strong . |
| 5 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 6 | If a borrower had rashly signed a credit agreement and then discovered he had committed himself to paying what he considered disproportionate interest , he could have his opinion confirmed , or shown to be unreasonable , by a court . |
| 7 | Tom finished his drink and then said he had to go . |
| 8 | SHANE WARNE yesterday spun Australia to a crushing 139-run victory over the West Indies in Melbourne — and then admitted he had surprised even himself . |
| 9 | I do n't know the reasons , I 'm only guessing , but the fact remains that a group captain , no less , came over to Bourn from Huntingdon to attend our squadron 's briefing , and then decided he wanted to go on the mission too . |
| 10 | He stunned Glentoran by first making a transfer request — and then revealing he wanted to play for Linfield . |
| 11 | And how dared he try to bolster up his male ego at her expense when he had made it so plain he did n't care a damn for her as a person ? |
| 12 | Rarely did Hubert Gaily go out anywhere else , on any other night , and never had he failed to enjoy his close , companionable , ale-coloured Saturday night . |