Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image .
2 John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) .
3 Rhetoric was a thing he would gladly have murdered ; and he had already carried out his theory of honest thinking at the expense of considerable financial and perhaps emotional sacrifices .
4 Malleson had said that half the people were as ready to drop out as he was and he had already dropped out .
5 And he had nearly given up .
6 And he 'd also clocked up several more years on the operatic stage than she had .
7 Eleanor came wearing a red suit , and he felt so turned on that he forgot to put the water in the teapot .
8 ‘ No hitches so far , and he 's even come up with a little bonus on the side .
9 Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though
10 And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site .
11 He has survived bankruptcy , libel , and having to resign as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , and he 's still come out on top .
12 ‘ All through his career he 's had the ability to lead and inspire and he 's really got through to our players and conveyed that . ’
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