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

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1 In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months .
2 He listened , too , and for a moment the noises from the next room ceased , and he heard only a great and total silence , a silence that extended beyond the city , beyond the planet , a silence as empty and bleak and beautiful as space , as the universe itself ; the endless harmonious silence of the spheres .
3 and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out
4 After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses .
5 I mean , one of the chaps we brought home had a er — he was only in his middle thirties and he had actually the stress of being held captive .
6 He knew in each piece exactly where the real climaxes were and he avoided completely the kind of hurrying or dragging which ruins so many performances .
7 Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment .
8 The Menuetto , with its return to the bright light of day , brings a delightfully ebullient trio , and he catches just the right note of spontaneous unpredictability in the finale .
9 The smell of incense strengthened and he saw ahead a haze of gold where the gleaming mosaics of the apse stained the air and the great figure of Christ in glory , his wounded hands stretched out , glared down the nave with cavernous eyes .
10 As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad .
11 So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall .
12 So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger .
13 And he kicked both the candle and the hand into the undergrowth .
14 And he felt all the better for it .
15 Then the front zip of her jeans yielded to his importuning hands and he eased away a little so that his fingers could slide inside , seeking , exploring , sensitising , until shudders shook her from head to foot .
16 After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds .
17 Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later .
18 News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution .
19 And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that
20 And he pushed open a small wooden door .
21 But something in his brother 's petition alerted him , and he pushed aside the quire of his new score .
22 He found it addictive , stimulating , endlessly absorbing , and he allowed nothing-certainly no personal involvements — to distract him .
23 And he wipes away a tear .
24 Like Weber , Durkheim was hostile to Marxism , both as a theory of society and as a political doctrine , but he was rather more sympathetic to a reformist kind of socialism , although he seems to have conceived it exclusively in a national context , and he dismissed entirely the idea of working-class internationalism ( Lukes , 1973 , pp. 32–7 ) .
25 We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today .
26 It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles .
27 Erm the guy down who 's just done my my club earned himself eighteen hundred pound in one week and he paid about a hundred a twenty quid out for bed and breakfast .
28 His vision was direct , concrete and simple and he recorded faithfully the accidents of every-day life .
29 There 's loads of stuff round the benches and he makes quite a pile after a while .
30 Sadleir is unique amongst Arabian explorers , for his journey was involuntary and he loathed both the place and its ‘ turbulent barbarians ’ .
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