Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] he " in BNC.

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1 That makes over fifty ponies he 's sold this year that he claims took part .
2 I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home .
3 It 's about eight times he 's taken himself out .
4 For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery .
5 Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm .
6 Unfortunately within eight months he was dead , being buried at the Parish Church on 1st October .
7 At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up .
8 fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything
9 Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead .
10 Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside .
11 For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting .
12 In an area of 300 acres he catalogued : This was a sober assessment , and resolution of the ‘ beautiful ’ problem was far from easy .
13 Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including :
14 Over the next 12 months he expects the three to sell at least 10 systems solutions n the UK .
15 In the past 12 months he has improved immensely to become one of the best in the world and to confirm Imran 's earlier forecasts .
16 At 15 , he started to dabble with heroin and within 12 months he was using it daily .
17 The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ?
18 Within 2 weeks he had raped and murdered Anna McGurk as she walked home from work at Gloucester City Council .
19 There are forty varieties he has bought or was given .
20 For almost 30 years he was a key negotiator for East Berlin on ‘ humanitarian questions ’ and a confidante of Mr Honecker .
21 For almost 30 years he was a key negotiator for East Berlin on ‘ humanitarian questions ’ and a confidante of Mr Honecker .
22 For the next 30 years he was involved in the practical application of the law of wills and trusts .
23 For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public .
24 For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again .
25 He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll .
26 At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban .
27 If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer .
28 For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 .
29 As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby .
30 Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre .
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