Example sentences of "and [subord] he [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was appointed to the Survey in July 1889 at the age of twenty-seven , and went to the Northern Highlands of Scotland , where he learned geological field techniques from the experienced surveyors B. N. Peach and C. T. Clough [ qq.v. ] , and where he also developed a lifelong fascination with Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks . |
| 2 | I wish Boswell had thought fit to quote as much as Johnson uttered , if only to observe Johnson 's intimate , word-perfect familiarity with Horace , and whether he also added a translation . |
| 3 | When he least needed the attention of a photographer one was sure to be on call and when he most needed a month of solitude away from screaming headlines , something from his past was inevitably dug up . |
| 4 | And when he finally produced a son in series two , you did n't so much ask ‘ when ? ’ as ‘ how ? ’ |
| 5 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |