Example sentences of "and he [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is not in good health , and he asks only that his nephew , Nathan , who is sixteen , shall be given the opportunity to work with the firm , starting at the lowest rung of the ladder , to learn the publishing business thoroughly . |
| 2 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 3 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 4 | He suggest that behind Raskolnikov 's sister 's loathing of him there lurks attraction , and he states flatly that she and his own wife were once in love with each other ; and perhaps he is right . |
| 5 | Contemporary perceptions continue to be reflected in historical writing : thus Robert Gray 's valuable study of the " skilled workers " in Edinburgh is confined to an all-male sample ; no dressmakers for instance are included , and he refers only in passing to women compositors . |
| 6 | and he thinks well why should I waste my time ? |
| 7 | And he 's a bloody great fat bloke and he sits here all day and |
| 8 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 9 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 10 | Isabelle hits him and he jerks up his head , his eyes wide and glassy . |
| 11 | Ask him if it seems dead here compared to those days , and he smiles gently . |
| 12 | And he smiles afresh at the thought of what that particular victory meant to everyone who witnessed it . |
| 13 | Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago ; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child . |
| 14 | The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) . |
| 15 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 16 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 17 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 18 | And so this near kinsman comes and he listens quietly to what Boaz has to say . |
| 19 | The world 's a brutal place and he wanders around worrying about toads and orchids . |
| 20 | Winston Smith , Orwell 's hero in Nineteen Eighty-Four , dimly knows there was once a free England before the Party seized total power , and he wanders off alone into the London slums to find memories of it . |
| 21 | And he wanders off |
| 22 | One patient had identified milk as causing symptoms but his lactose tolerance test was positive and he remains well on a lactose free diet . |
| 23 | If anything , he defines himself as a DJ rather than a rapper , and he remains desperately committed to the dance scene . |
| 24 | His 25 League goals in 1960–61 put him as runner-up to Johnny Byrne in that promotion season and he remains only behind Byrne 's figure of 30 for the highest number of strikes in a post-war League season of up to 46 games . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the effective independence of the individual contract programmer or analyst is not thereby enhanced , and he remains as dependent as the temporary secretary or typist upon intermediaries ( the agencies ) to provide a flow of work . |
| 26 | I watch the man till he 's finished and he drives off . |
| 27 | And eventually you you either do and he drives off and nearly runs into rams into a lamppost or something like that on his way when he 's finally given up , or else sometimes as I say they get together and er everything 's hunkydory . |
| 28 | I ask Laverne , and he fakes truly mystified . |
| 29 | They touch down , and he pushes off again , taking her arm so that she glides up with him in spite of herself . |
| 30 | And he keeps on asking me what I 'd like him to buy . |