Example sentences of "and he [verb] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have , but he does n't believe there are two of us ; he saw the card you sent me and he thinks I got the idea of a twin from that . |
| 2 | And he knew he had the backing of the President and most of the powerful Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill . |
| 3 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 4 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |
| 5 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 6 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |