Example sentences of "and he [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time he was instructed to raise money by conducting sales of wood from the king 's demesne , and he carried out the king 's policy regarding mining in the forest , which wavered between a desire to increase the Forest revenues and concern lest the vert be destroyed . |
| 2 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 3 | Yes and he had n't the faintest idea of how to do it ! |
| 4 | I mean , one of the chaps we brought home had a er — he was only in his middle thirties and he had actually the stress of being held captive . |
| 5 | He knew in each piece exactly where the real climaxes were and he avoided completely the kind of hurrying or dragging which ruins so many performances . |
| 6 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 7 | He was very much more out than I was and he knew where the gay scene was , not only in Edinburgh but also in London . |
| 8 | He was familiar with the mortuary , and he knew where the body he had last seen lying in the mud would be . |
| 9 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 10 | yeah , and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got , I said what do you really think , I played a free hand , you mean mum and dad 's hand |
| 11 | The Menuetto , with its return to the bright light of day , brings a delightfully ebullient trio , and he catches just the right note of spontaneous unpredictability in the finale . |
| 12 | As he is a natural pessimist and I am a natural optimist , I quoted the good and he quoted only the bad . |
| 13 | and he observed how the oaken doors |
| 14 | And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama . |
| 15 | So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger . |
| 16 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 17 | And he kicked both the candle and the hand into the undergrowth . |
| 18 | And he felt all the better for it . |
| 19 | After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds . |
| 20 | Then the Doctor began to sing ; he was a great man at a party and he warmed up the crowd no end . |
| 21 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 22 | Professor Uitsmijter has suggested what at first seems a crazy solution to my translation problems : I place my tape-recorder next to the phone , he records the laibon 's words in Nairobi and he faxes back the translation . |
| 23 | He did not see any sign of the runaway animals but later on that night the local policeman called on him and he took over the task of keeping a look out . |
| 24 | He was , nevertheless , elected to the see of the Auvergne , and he took over the administration of the diocese . |
| 25 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 26 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 27 | And he took out the keys and threw them onto the bonnet . |
| 28 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 29 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 30 | It was a sash window , and he threw up the lower half . |