Example sentences of "and [pron] he [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He respected the law , and everything he said was qualified by it . |
| 2 | And what he felt was a fraternal love . |
| 3 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-West was right about car security and what he said was reflected in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden , who urged us to do more about car security . |
| 5 | ‘ Muhammad — may God bless him and grant him peace — who was , I do n't need to remind you , quite a guy — once said — and what he said was , on the whole earth , listening to — on several occasions — not that he was a man given to repeating himself — once , anyway , said — and he had a beautiful speaking voice … ’ etc. etc . |
| 6 | ‘ He is an experienced politician and what he said was totally reprehensible and inexcusable , ’ he said . |
| 7 | That Bingham-Jones boy had been a nuisance all day ; he was a spoiled brat ; and what he needed was a good smacking . |
| 8 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 9 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 10 | What Meredith Jones did took some months and what he did was unprecedented . |
| 11 | And what he did was he wrote down quite a number of things . |