Example sentences of "and [adv] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 His apartment in New York would be no place to keep an African antelope , and so he came to the nature reserve where I was working .
2 I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints .
3 Teclis could not refuse such an honour and so he returned to the Tower of Hoeth .
4 Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs .
5 And so he climbed to the mountains and there , high in the mountains , in an old stone building lived a man with hair down below his waist .
6 He replied that he did not care and anyway he knew about the Black shooting and there was no truth in what we were saying .
7 And thus he came to the water .
8 They called to Joseph Poorgrass , who was picking apples , and soon he came along the path to Bathsheba 's house .
9 He never learnt his letters properly , to my shame , and now he talks of the army .
10 He came out of nowhere and now he travels with the band .
11 He was used to walking all over the city , as if searching , as if dedicated to the act of searching , every single day ; and now he came to The Bar every single night , and did his searching there .
12 Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world .
13 He noticed , too , that it was stone floored , and immediately he took in the feeling of clinical cleanliness .
14 Willis told the cops , ‘ You 'll all be walking the fucking beat soon , ’ and then he yelled at the neighbours , ‘ Which of you bastards told the police ? ’
15 She wished he would understand she wanted him to go but Shildon sat there while she dialled and then he went into the garden .
16 And then he went into the bathroom locked the door and it was just silent .
17 And then he was supposed to meet her there he he went there and she was n't there and then he went to the Red Lion and she was
18 He looked round to make sure that nobody was following him , and then he disappeared over the hill .
19 Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district .
20 At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him .
21 And then we get to the roadworks , and probably he 's either in front of me or behind me , and he 's going and then he gets through the roadworks , and it 's , away , whoa , woof , and they 're up behind you are n't they .
22 I say ‘ Happy Christmas ’ back and then he gets into the van and they drive off .
23 and then he looked at the man .
24 and then he looked at the row of trolleys tangled in the front of the car .
25 He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating .
26 The man tipped his hat to Jane and then he darted across the road , heading into St Stephen 's Green , leaving Patrick and Jane standing before the hotel .
27 no the gourmet like detective yeah and they come in and they go God that was a tough crime and he 'd go after a crime I like something to eat and then he goes into the kitchen and he 's going
28 And then he fires from the hip while
29 and then he played in the afternoons !
30 Patrick took his sister 's hand and led her further down the garden , out of sight of the house , and then he squatted in the snow and stared into her deep , dark eyes .
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