Example sentences of "and he [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his hold on power was weakened by the result and he eventually formed a minority coalition with the Liberals ( Venstre ) . |
| 2 | Dad Ron had by now qualified as an accountant and he eventually landed a job with the local council . |
| 3 | They attacked the driver and he straightway made a bolt for it , leaving the horses standing there . |
| 4 | His face was wrinkled and he badly needed a shave . |
| 5 | After the Kristallnacht in 1938 he helped rescue 14 young Jews from a German concentration camp , and he later became a Zionist . |
| 6 | He accesses a Nifty-Serve bulletin board which may carry idol information deposited there by other otaku , and he desperately seeks a way to hack into the mainframe of Nakayama 's record company with a code-cracking programme he designed himself . |
| 7 | So on Grand National day , he went to Worcester instead of Aintree and he even rode a winner — Three Dons in a novice hurdle . |
| 8 | He attended the trial of Zola daily , and he even smuggled a copy of his first book of essays , as it turns out I think the wildly inappropriate Les plaisirs et les jours , to the imprisoned Colonel Picard , who had become the defender of Dreyfus at considerable personal cost . |
| 9 | Occasionally he appeared in a bomber jacket and he frequently wore a hat — when we were there it was an engaging and stylish grey and white cap , though sometimes an American baseball hat in honour of Stevie Ray Vaughan . |
| 10 | He has some pretty sore ribs too , I imagine , and he also suffered a couple of cuts round his eyes . |
| 11 | An amateur composer and librettist , he wrote and performed in operas , and he also wrote a travesty of Hamlet , published in Vienna in 1795 . |
| 12 | Due to his technical expertise , he was able to work extremely quickly and unobtrusively , and he also had a knack for directing people so that the end result looked very natural . |
| 13 | A Colombian journalist , now living in Hampstead , described the Christ she was once privileged to view : ‘ It was a face that was a golden-bronze sort of colour , with very large dark eyes that were very luminous , and very high cheekbones and a longish face and he also had a beard , ’ she said reverently . |
| 14 | His filly Silk Slippers became one of the favourites for next year 's Oaks after winning at Ascot recently and he also owns a share in The Caretaker , who won Saturday 's Cartier Million . |
| 15 | Among his early publications were studies of the flora of the Falmouth area and he also published a monograph on free nematodes , describing 100 new species , in 1864 . |
| 16 | First , he began , and said that Qaddafi did indeed have faults : that was inescapable , all men have faults ; but it was wrong to believe that everything Sadat said about him because Sadat too had faults , and he also had a purpose in saying what he said . |
| 17 | He has a place in Cheltenham in England which he set up some years ago , and he also has a retreat in the French alps in St Claude , and his aim , apparently , is to de-program people who have been through religious sects such as Scientologists , Moonies and now the Hare Krishnas . |
| 18 | He told the jury : ‘ Mo is disabled but he can crawl and he also has a car . |
| 19 | On 20 March 1989 papers were served on him and he then consulted a solicitor for the first time . |
| 20 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 21 | He listened and provoked the expression of every opinion — however conflicting — and he then produced a concoction which contained the best of the ingredients from every recipe . |
| 22 | He aprroached him and he then produced a handgun . |
| 23 | And he always enjoyed a laugh . |
| 24 | He was a good footballer and he always looked a bit weird with his striking blond hair However , there was something of a monkey-like mischievousness about him . |
| 25 | And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic . |
| 26 | and my brother Glen , he 's ver he 's , he 's forgetful , he 's very forgetful and he always wants a clean up the sitting room . |
| 27 | So I took his egg and bacon , gave him the finney haddock and he never said a word . |
| 28 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 29 | He said that several players dragged John Newton away and he never had a chance to kick Mr Hallam in the face or punch him . |
| 30 | I 'm saying years ago my old dad , he , he were eighty nine and he never had a blood test in his life . |