Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , 'e called , like 'e said 'e would , all wrapped up still , and I brought 'im in and 'e stood just where you 're standin' . |
| 2 | His false leg was a legacy of Dunkirk and he limped noticeably as he went to the drinks cupboard and poured a whisky . |
| 3 | It suited Adam not to reply in German and he gesticulated wildly as he tried to make her understand . |
| 4 | And he looked at McAllister sitting primly before him , hands in her lap , the face beneath the lace cap so enchanting that Angela Macleod , née Deverill , and all her works , flew away forever , and he knew again where his heart now lay . |
| 5 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 6 | It was said with a kind of grim contempt , and he stared ahead as he spoke . |
| 7 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 8 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 9 | On the same day , the eighteenth of October , Mr came back and spoke to Miss about this telephone call and he rang Peter in the afternoon of that Friday and he asked again if it was possible to withdraw because of the landlord 's failure to consent to the er assignment and again er after what will er be described as a fairly easy discussion between the plaintiff and er Mr , er he was told very clearly that it was not possible for him to withdraw , contracts had been exchanged and he was advised that what the landlords er failure to consent did was in fact er provide Mr with more breathing space in order to obtain proper funding and re-arrange his finances er , that again is denied . |
| 10 | The team released him and he returned home where he soon married . |
| 11 | Because we asked , we come to see the horses and he said well if I tell you he , he , he was English were n't he ? |
| 12 | And he says , I says listen , young man , the locks I ai n't gon na put them in , and this is true , and he said well if you wo n't do that you 'll do nothing else at all . |
| 13 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 14 | ‘ Picnic , ’ said Hywel , and he said softly as he went away , ‘ Diawl take picnics . ’ |
| 15 | He made a tremendous effort to bring himself back into reality ; his hands shook and he swallowed twice as he tried to speak ; then he passed his right hand , still clutching the telegram , through his dark hair . |
| 16 | On December 28 he would be twenty years old , and he wondered bitterly when he might be allowed to grow up . |
| 17 | It was n't Creed in the window , after all , it was just some advert for brilliantine , but his heart did n't know the difference and he sat there until it slowed . |
| 18 | He told her ; and he watched suspiciously as she glanced at the sheet of instructions , set the timer and plugged it into the power point that controlled the standard lamp . |
| 19 | I never heard him raise his voice to her , and he mourned sincerely when she died . |
| 20 | Sometimes she stood still , providing a centre for the storm of his movement ; sometimes the roles were reversed , and he stood tensely while she whirled about him . |