Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 2 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 3 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 4 | Throughout January he worked upon the third act of the play and . |
| 5 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 6 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 7 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 8 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
| 9 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 10 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 11 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 12 | Dana read a group of modern Americans , which must have annoyed the British , starting with Elizabeth Bishop 's ‘ The Fish ’ — I can still hear his voice , the faint American accent and the hushed astonishment he put into the first line : ‘ I caught a tremendous fish … . ’ |
| 13 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 14 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 15 | The blunder he survived at the 15th fence would have sent 99 men out of 100 into orbit . |
| 16 | Next the designer moves on to the exceptions , such as a and s , all the while bearing in mind the axis he established with the first letter he designed . |
| 17 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 18 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 19 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 20 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 21 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 22 | The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage . |
| 23 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 24 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 25 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 26 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 27 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |
| 28 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 29 | Exasperated by what he saw as Theo 's heartless neglect of him , he unleashed a volley of angry questions to a brother he relegated to the third person : ‘ Why does n't he write ? |
| 30 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |