Example sentences of "he [verb] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE appointment of Tom Graveney as match referee for next year 's Test and one-day series between West Indies and Pakistan could be blocked because of a comment he made five years ago . |
| 2 | In the middle of November the Eliots travelled to America , where he made five public appearances in order to pay for their forthcoming holiday in Barbados after Christmas — as long as he could " hobble up a stage " , he could still pay for such trips . |
| 3 | For the Contact Book , Who Runs Britain ? , published September 1949 , he produced five illustrations to accompany Marius Dick 's article , ‘ The Day of an Oxford Don ’ . |
| 4 | No I just , I just could n't work out how he averaged five marks . |
| 5 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 6 | ‘ I can not act under pressure of one group of citizens , ’ Mr Adamec said in a televised address , referring to the Civic Forum group which has led resistance to the Communist-dominated government he announced five days ago . |
| 7 | He got five or seven years in gaol . |
| 8 | ( He got five CSEs . ) |
| 9 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 10 | In June Paul Callaghan , 27 , was jailed for 15 years after he admitted five robberies , a rape and an indecent assault . |
| 11 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 12 | Obtaining a licence for the Siemens open-hearth steel process , he built five furnaces at the Dalzell works , together with a rolling mill and finishing shop , the first melt of steel being made in 1881 . |
| 13 | He let five buses go by and the girls kept at him , sure that they knew what he wanted . |
| 14 | Murray originally faced a total of 13 drug-related charges including allegations he assaulted five men by injecting them with heroin in the tyre depot but 11 of those were dropped during the course of the trial . |
| 15 | He caught five men , in his last innings in the field . |
| 16 | He has five children : Isobel , 4 , Gordon , 6 , Amber , 16 , Rory , 18 and Sinclair , aged 24 : |
| 17 | He has five heads . |
| 18 | He has five older sisters and is an uncle six times over . |
| 19 | He has five thousand men , no more than we have , and Malcolm is not with him . ’ |
| 20 | He has five grandsons and hopes to buy a garden hut with cheques he received as a leaving present from work mates and friends . |
| 21 | He has five youngsters who all need feeding . |
| 22 | His goal is to score 100 points before the season is over , which means he has five games in which to hit the century mark . |
| 23 | If he needs five thousand pound coverage on each item |
| 24 | He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place . |
| 25 | Accordingly , he dismissed five members of his Cabinet , including his deputy , Danny Philips , and replaced them with four members of the opposition ( George Luialamo , Sam Alasia , Alfred Maetia and Sir Peter Kenilorea , a former Prime Minister ) and Job Tausinga , a PAP backbencher . |
| 26 | He dismissed five of his ministers ( including Deputy Prime Minister Danny Philip ) and replaced them with four members of the opposition and one PAP backbencher [ see p. 37862 ] . |
| 27 | He played for Surrey second XI at 20 and made his debut for the first XI in 1947 , when he played five matches . |
| 28 | The high-jinks of the victorious Yorkshire sides are lively in the telling , and there are laughs aplenty in his recollections of the 1963–64 MCC tour of India , during which he played five of his six Tests . |
| 29 | Plasma exchange began on Brian 's second day in the unit and he received five treatments over the next two weeks . |
| 30 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |