Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 2 | In anticipation of his major 1993 exhibition at the Jeu de Paume , which concentrates on the work he produced during the Eighties , until the end of this month Martin Barré is presenting a new series of twelve paintings at the Laage-Salomon gallery . |
| 3 | A beautiful odalisque by Matisse , such as Torso with a Jug , typical of the work he did in the 1920s and 1930s , will bring £35,000 or more . |
| 4 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 5 | Israeli and world leaders paid tribute to Begin who was buried alongside fellow-fighters in the Irgun Zva'i Leumi , the Jewish guerrilla group he commanded in the 1940s . |
| 6 | The maths he produced in the six short years before his death in 1920 is treasured for its originality . |
| 7 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ — in other words , a row — over Lewis 's tunnel-visioned determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 8 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ over Lewis 's determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 9 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 10 | His published analysis of the cholera cases he attended during the 1832 epidemic drew attention to the correlations between disease and environment ( in particular the habitations , principally in cellars and courts , of the poor ) . |
| 11 | In Mr Wakil 's first speech to Parliament he referred to the Five Year plan , in which an expansion of broadcasting was projected . |
| 12 | Cockle Button , Cockle Ben , a children 's book he wrote in the 1930s , has remarkably good illustrations . |
| 13 | This latter amount he left to the five daughters of Edward Warren , Lord of the Manor . |
| 14 | I do n't suppose he remembers her name now , any more than he remembers the names of the dozens of other women he seduced during the ten years of our marriage . |
| 15 | Of the four biographies he published in the 1930s , Frank Harris ( 1932 ) was a witty and ironic exercise in demythology , identifying his one-time literary hero as an inverted puritan ‘ with a heart of borrowed gold ’ ; and his Samuel Johnson ( 1933 ) a succinct and humane study of ‘ an intensely loving and compassionate soul handicapped in its expression by lifelong disabilities of mind and body ’ . |
| 16 | However , although there seems indeed to be a return to ‘ History ’ ( in Simonian terms ) and an apparent abandonment of the scriptural narcissism of the self-generating novels he produced in the 1970s , this view also rests on a historicizing version of the development of Simon 's fiction . |
| 17 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 18 | The week before they were going to Dublin he went with the two girls and Rose to Boles in the town . |
| 19 | In this sense the very high ‘ yes ’ votes he achieved in the four presidential elections since independence have been genuine , but should not be mistaken for support for specific policies , and still less for support for other leaders at either the local or national level . |