Example sentences of "five [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 2 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 3 | Peter Yeo felt a headache starting , and felt the familiar pressure just above the right eye worsen with the realization that in precisely five minutes he would be needed in a meeting . |
| 4 | Within five minutes he had gone , leaving Edward to try to decipher the hieroglyphics of his prescriptions . |
| 5 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 6 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
| 7 | Mr. Crowther had his offices in an old house farther down the High Street on the other side , and in five minutes he and Sara and Matthew had walked down and were standing outside the big black door of Moorlake House . |
| 8 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 9 | In five minutes he showed his menace with a sharp turn which left Mike Galloway standing . |
| 10 | While Dick Piper was hard pushed to find the five shillings he had borrowed from Harry Pierpoint , the father of the princess who was to become Queen Mary was jibbing at paying tradesmen 's bills which he had allowed to grow to around £20,000 . |
| 11 | If he said five shillings he meant five shillings and not four and sixpence . |
| 12 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 13 | In less than five months he would have finished his studies here . |
| 14 | The result of his labours during the five months he had been there is a collection consisting of 500 Birds ; 100 Skeletons , 60 nests , the eggs of alike [ sic ] No. of species , and 3 nine gallon Kegs of specimens in spirits … |
| 15 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 16 | In five attacks he emptied every bullet in the drum , battering away at the vitals : the engine , cockpit , fuel tank . |
| 17 | He was rushed to Brompton Hospital where for five weeks he lay under continuous oxygen . |
| 18 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 19 | Mr Koenig , 44 , celebrated with champagne yesterday — and rehired five workers he had been forced to sack from his tool business . |
| 20 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 21 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 22 | He was not as successful with melons because even ‘ Miller 's very fine old seed produced abominable fruit , and after trials covering five years he wrote to Chelsea for guidance . |
| 23 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
| 24 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 25 | Every five years he called all souls to judgement to determine whether they were worthy to continue their lives on earth . |
| 26 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 27 | What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later . |
| 28 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 29 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 30 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |