Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She died in 1899 and he married again , a woman called Georgina , who appears to have died in 1905 . |
| 2 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 3 | And he roared away into the night , the rough scales on his throat catching the breeze of his anger and making a hissing hum as he vanished . |
| 4 | It was Tylor who first taught anthropology under this name at Oxford in 1884 and he carried forward and extended some of the theoretically more important strands in Morgan 's work . |
| 5 | His voice petered out and he rolled away from her and lay on his back , his hands clasped behind his head , staring woodenly at the ceiling . |
| 6 | And what I most remember is the wonderfully happy way that you and he taught together — each taking up when the other left off so freshly and amusingly . |
| 7 | A set of Easter tables drawn up by Cyril of Alexandria ( 376–444 ) was accompanied by a consecutive set of years beginning with the Emperor Diocletian and his persecution in AD 284 , but when in AD 525 a Scythian monk living in Rome , Dionysius Exiguus , prepared a continuation of Cyril 's tables , at the request of Pope John I , he felt that it was inappropriate to reckon from the reign of this enemy of Christianity , and he chose instead to date the years from Christ 's Incarnation . |
| 8 | It was a place and time of deliberate choosing and he chose also to be incarnate as a man . |
| 9 | And he finished less than seven seconds behind Lawson |
| 10 | Cunningham , who has not played since May 1 has still trained hard , and he admitted yesterday : ‘ Realistically , I could not play in Saturday 's Test that would be a bit early . ’ |
| 11 | Burun laughed softly , and he gestured apparently without embarrassment . |
| 12 | Arghatun was speaking again , and he gestured once or twice in the direction of Rostov and the others so that it was clear that he was making a report . |
| 13 | His eyes gleamed and he breathed noisily through his nose as he lifted his own rifle to his shoulder then fired both barrels at the shadow in quick succession . |
| 14 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 15 | I waved and he raised both his arms in an outlandish hieratic gesture , one foot slightly advanced , as if in some kind of primitive blessing . |
| 16 | The annual budget went from $8.5 to $31 million , and he raised more than $200 million for expansions and capital improvements , such as the Anderson Building , the Pavilion for Japanese Art , and the Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The three vices which he hated most , according to Isaacson , were usury , simony and sacrilege ; and he suffered much through suits brought against him by men to whom he had refused livings . |
| 19 | " Thank you very much , " and he saluted smartly . |
| 20 | It was barely four o'clock when he entered the hut of the Ngo brothers and he waddled threateningly down the canter of the earth floor towards them , shining his flashlight right and left , looking for any excuse to employ his cane . |
| 21 | His false leg was a legacy of Dunkirk and he limped noticeably as he went to the drinks cupboard and poured a whisky . |
| 22 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 23 | Alvar Salvadores and his companions bestirred themselves so well that they drove the enemy to their tents , making great mortality among them , and then they turned back , whereat my Cid was well pleased ; but Alvar Salvadores went on , hacking and hewing all before him , for he thought the ladies were looking on , and he pressed forward so far , that being without succour he was taken . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
| 26 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 27 | And he wrote fast , too . |
| 28 | And as a matter of some real interest , he would have a copy made and for example say that er I was a messenger boy among other things , he would er give me a a written hand written And he wrote beautifully . |
| 29 | He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that |
| 30 | He let the words sink , and he wrote sharply , and his eyes never left the boy . |