Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 2 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 3 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 4 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 5 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 6 | so er I 've got to keep him off school today and see how he goes over the next day or two . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 8 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 9 | He had the reputation for being clever but lacking in tact or discretion , and held only a minor post in Grey 's Government of 1853 to 1855 , and although he remained an MP until 1883 , when he succeeded as the tenth Earl of Wemyss and March , he never held office again . |
| 10 | The first casualty of the match was , for a change , a West Indian fast bowler , when Marshall fractured his left thumb trying to stop a shot from Broad ; yet even this worked against England , for it simply inspired him to his best Test figures when he bowled in the second innings . |
| 11 | ( The pre-war record for the youngest player in League football , incidentally , is held by Geldard of Bradford , who was fifteen when he appeared in a Second Division match in 1929 . ) |