Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice petered out and he rolled away from her and lay on his back , his hands clasped behind his head , staring woodenly at the ceiling . |
| 2 | His eyes gleamed and he breathed noisily through his nose as he lifted his own rifle to his shoulder then fired both barrels at the shadow in quick succession . |
| 3 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 4 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 5 | And he fell right in it ? |
| 6 | Shakily she gave in and begged , and he glanced across at her swiftly , surprise in his dark eyes . |
| 7 | In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line . |
| 8 | It had been enough to set Freddie 's agile mind working , and he grinned expectantly to himself as he heard the watchman 's voice . |
| 9 | I got a drink for him and he grinned gratefully at me . |
| 10 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 11 | That was enough to stop him , and he went downstairs to his lonely bed . |
| 12 | and I went round there and he went straight into me . |
| 13 | Her voice was tentative , shaken , and he got slowly to his feet , searching her face . |
| 14 | I reached over , lifted his hand from where it was resting on the table , toying with a piece of orange peel , and he leant forward with it , allowing me to take it as near to myself as I wanted . |
| 15 | There was little point in denying anything and he stared hard at her , his lips in one straight , angry line . |
| 16 | And he looked straight into her face as he answered , ‘ Aye , she 's in trouble . |
| 17 | His eyes were watering as he started it , and he looked away from me again , towards the deserted white tables around us . |
| 18 | He was talking to Vern and he looked just like him except his body was bulky , and his face — talk about animated ! |
| 19 | And he looked pointedly at his watch , a fine gold hunter which he pulled out of his pocket and cocked an eye at . |
| 20 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 21 | He was sitting next to Mr Hollins and he looked solemnly at him . |
| 22 | He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’ |
| 23 | Ruth sat down and he looked across at her . |
| 24 | Lewis 's eyebrows lifted under a frown , and he looked across at his chief : ‘ I 'm afraid that 's not right , sir . |
| 25 | Furthermore , as Robertson-Glasgow wrote , ‘ one puff of victory sighted on the horizon and he rode straight for it . ’ |
| 26 | D. A. I was on a school-crossing duty for disabled children and I held up my hand for a motor cyclist to stop and he rode right past me . |
| 27 | All this the pope had learned in Paris and he believed passionately in his mission of improvement . |
| 28 | His hand slid up her arm and he stepped close to her . |
| 29 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
| 30 | There was little traffic on the road and he ran across to her , ran round to the passenger side and jumped in . |