Example sentences of "and he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had entered into negotiations with the commissioners of His Majesty 's Victualling Office for the erection of an engine to drive a corn mill , and manufacture of the parts was well advanced , when for some reason they turned to John Smeaton [ q.v. ] for an opinion , and he recommended a pumping engine and water-wheel . |
| 2 | During the war he moved children to his home in Surrey , where a wing was converted into a nursery , and he engaged a cook and nurse and a maid to look after them . |
| 3 | From his vantage point he sees in one part of the field the enemy trying to retreat with their artillery and he sends a message to his brigade of light Cavalry . |
| 4 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 5 | There are n states of nature and he receives a return of if he takes action i and the state is j . |
| 6 | He was wearing close-fitting jeans , and a loose crimson silk shirt , open at the neck , and he carried a guitar . |
| 7 | And he carried a gun . |
| 8 | He was fat and very dark — one of the tinkers from a camp outside the village — and he carried an armful of pots and pans . |
| 9 | At intervals , re-crossing his cramped legs humped on the hassock of his kit-bag , his boot struck Meredith 's shin and he muttered an apology , to which Meredith responded with a polite shrug of the shoulders . |
| 10 | And he charges a lot . ’ |
| 11 | Her birthday was on 21st December and he arranged a family dinner party to celebrate it . |
| 12 | Another warning jab of the gun through the seatback made him start , and he dropped a couple of coins at his feet . |
| 13 | At last , Guido said it , as they stood together on the edge of the dance-floor and he dropped a kiss into her hair . |
| 14 | Kasuya 's fears proved to be well founded , and he dropped a bombshell at the 1989 meeting of the IWC 's Scientific Committee , when he revealed to the Small Cetaceans Subcommittee the staggering increase in the number of Dall 's porpoise killed in the harpoon fishery based on Iwate Prefecture . |
| 15 | He took the car and the warm evening seemed to have brought out hordes of motorists who were just strolling , and he chose a zigzag route to throw off any fan club . |
| 16 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 17 | The old man 's name was Brenner and he chose a Dunkel and a Korn — a very dark beer plus a chaser of the local heart-stopper that tasted somewhere between very young whisky and vodka . |
| 18 | Her fingers trail across his groin , and he feels a springing in his cock . |
| 19 | He has devoted time and energy to people because it is the people who will one day be his subjects , and he feels a sense of responsibility towards them ; but he will also be King of the British Isles , and has a responsibility to safeguard those Isles for future generations . |
| 20 | Of course , it might be said that a man in your position , if you 'll forgive the expression , is dieting either because his lover has threatened to leave him if he does n't shed a few pounds or because his lover has left him and he feels a need to , shall we say , freshen up . |
| 21 | And he spends a lot of time in Finland . ’ |
| 22 | The three reporters were getting out of a taxi and he raised a hand to them also . |
| 23 | She frowned slightly , and he raised a finger to his lips , closing the kitchen door to , so that their words would not be heard by the woman m the other room . |
| 24 | ‘ And he owns a company in New York ? ’ |
| 25 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 26 | He was 68 years old in the early months of 1918 , when the experience of living through an air-raid proved too much for his system and he suffered a stroke . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Christ , ’ he said again , for he was an Australian with a hangover and he shared a quarter tonner named Mrs Mangel with four other Australians with four other hangovers , and as they stirred in their sleeping bags in the morning they looked like five blind underground creatures disturbed by David Attenborough . |
| 28 | ‘ Azha 's ’ first century against Australia contained 17 fours , and he shared a stand of 101 with Prabhakar in under 90 minutes . |
| 29 | And they turn to him , and he speaks a word that brings deliverance . |
| 30 | Then someone picked up and he heard a woman say a curt and cautious , ‘ Yes ’ |