Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 2 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 3 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 4 | She rubbed sinuously against him as she felt a deep thrill at his arousal , and shut her eyes as he removed the last fragile barrier . |
| 5 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 6 | His inward half of 33 was fine golf and contained only one lucky break when he missed the 16th green but scrambled down in two when it would have been much easier to take three . |
| 7 | But the noise put Seve on his guard and he played the 17th conservatively , for him . |
| 8 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 9 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 10 | White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame . |
| 11 | The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham-Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . |
| 12 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 13 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 14 | Connelly was about to push the door when it was opened from the inside and he found a third man there . |
| 15 | He lowered his head because he remembered the fourth person all right , but he did n't want to tell Ezzie about it . |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman should get out of the habit of writing his supplementary questions before he hears the first answer . |
| 17 | A former British and European light-welterweight champion , Barrett has now asked the British Boxing Board of Control to name him as challenger to Gary Jacobs for the British welterweight championship and Ludovic Proto for the European title before he considers a second world title . |
| 18 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 19 | He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads . |
| 20 | Chris Broad looked set for a good knock as he crashed the first four of the day … but Gloucestershire then got themselves into trouble against the bowling of Gordon Harris … |
| 21 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 22 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |
| 23 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 24 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 25 | It 's an introduction cos this is given to a member of staff and he says the first the question is can develop and train all staff . |
| 26 | His chuckle was rich , and his eyes creased in amusement as he narrowed the last little gap between them . |
| 27 | Hertz confirmed Maxwell 's theory when he detected the first radio waves . |
| 28 | However , it ran out in its turn as he reached the next storey , occupied , Sunil had told him , by upper servants . |
| 29 | His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead . |
| 30 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |