Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 2 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 3 | Many college curricula , especially in scientific and technological subjects , subject the student to such a barrage of facts and opinions that he has little chance to pause and assess what has taken place so far . |
| 4 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 5 | On a set of Heath Robinson ingenuity with suspended buckets , antique plumbing and piles of dusty books and furniture — all part of the Miser 's hoard of battered possessions — Tom Courtenay schemes , struts and raves as he seeks to protect his two million francs . |
| 6 | In the last few years of his life William 's grandad had finally found employment in a growth industry — he was a volunteer with the Victims Support Scheme , and a lot of the mourners were people from the office , or victims of muggings and burglaries that he 'd helped to put on their feet again . |
| 7 | Dreamtime legends tell that the Julunggul , in his guise as a gigantic serpent , dug out many rivers and waterholes as he writhed through the desert sand . |
| 8 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 9 | Mr Brady told Judge Leo Clarke QC he hurt his knees and ankles as he ran away . |
| 10 | Trevor joined Templeton in 1971 , having already worked with both carpets and rugs since he left the R.A.F. in 1947 . |
| 11 | The deputé , in a supplementary question , asks what on earth the minister means by ‘ Belgian ’ and demands that he clarify this category which he says he does not recognise . |
| 12 | Sobbing , Herman Katz sank to the floor , drawing in his arms and legs as he assumed a foetal ball , trying to return to the safety of his mother 's womb . |
| 13 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 14 | Harvey had always had a mania for showers and baths and he had taken to the sauna ritual with great enthusiasm . |
| 15 | But , on the face of it , the perfect little couplets about twigs and foxes that he wrung out of his gargantuan walks justified the form of their lives as fully in her eyes as in his . |
| 16 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 17 | Forester checked the drawers and cupboards before he moved through into the main room . |
| 18 | At a time of rapid social change , for example , and through the educational system , the child may acquire a degree of independence as a result of the new knowledge and experiences that he comes to possess . |
| 19 | Each use of symbols and phrases that he quotes has been debated with ‘ real teachers ’ who have advised us on the choice that will cause the least confusion with pupils . |
| 20 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 21 | There were a lot of dots and squiggles and he said that it was a picture of the crocodile eating Captain Hook . |
| 22 | The Wolfqueen was waking in him longings and emotions that he had striven to bury . |
| 23 | He seems genuinely upset by the charges and pauses as he considers an answer . |
| 24 | He continued to cooperate in the exchange of books , plants and seeds and he contributed specimens from Chelsea for Linnaeus 's son , who was forming an ambitious herbarium . |
| 25 | John Carwelti argues that certain types of formula-stories , ‘ Adventure , Mystery and Romance ’ , must be judged by their own standards and conventions and he deplores the literary assumption that this type of writing is ‘ subliterature ’ . |
| 26 | He heard the lamentations and cries as he walked through the Galilee Gate , and hurried around to the main entrance where a distraught Lady Amelia was being supported by the two Sub-prioresses , their own cheeks wet with tears . |
| 27 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 28 | Weeks and weeks and weeks and he gets a C. |
| 29 | Apple appeal Graham Rice takes the graft out of choosing apple rootstocks and varieties as he visits a specialist fruit tree nursery . |
| 30 | The congestion metering system will ultimately include information to the driver on the expected journey time and costs as he approaches the city . |