Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was there , he said , that he acquired the three enthusiasms of his life — politics , religion , and books . |
| 2 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 3 | The result , therefore , is a framed narrative without a frame narrator — not that he reached the two sides of this conclusion simultaneously . |
| 4 | It was then that he noticed the two men standing behind the butler in the shadows . |
| 5 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 6 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 7 | His wife wash d and shaved him , and ensured that he swallowed the twenty-six pills each day which had been mainly prescribed for his heart . |
| 8 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 9 | Both amendments were defeated , but Mr Burns said each matter would receive further consideration if the Bill progressed and he hoped the two issues could be resolved then . |
| 10 | Then a flicker of movement caught his eye off to one side of the clearing , and he saw the two youngsters were still hovering there uncertainly . |
| 11 | His handicap is currently four and he won the 1990 Peter Townsend Trophy at Porters Park Golf Club with rounds of 73 and 72 . |
| 12 | The nearest town was Burlington and he travelled the five miles there each Monday morning in his battered white ‘ 78 Ford pick-up to collect enough supplies to last him through the week . |
| 13 | Both the Government and union lawyers were poring over Lord Justice Iain Glidewell 's ruling to see if he intended the 10 pits to be re-opened . |
| 14 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 15 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 16 | Ambling into the nets , he had barely taken guard when he suffered the one embarrassment all England batsmen fear on overseas tours . |
| 17 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 18 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 19 | He was living in a bedsit in Colwyn Road , Northampton , when he subjected the 11 year old boy to half an hour of terrifying sexual abuse . |
| 20 | The 6ft 1in Austrian was derisively known as ‘ Laughing Stock ’ , even by some of his competitors , when he won the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic downhill having displaced the Kaiser , the great Franz Klammer , on the Austrian team in one of Charlie Kahr 's infamous eliminator races . |
| 21 | WORLD junior championship relay gold medallist , James Baulch , equalled his recent Welsh indoor record when he won the 200 metres in a stylish 21.65 in the indoor international against Scotland at the Kelvin Hall , Glasgow , last night . |
| 22 | In the end he did it too , when he won the 1965 manufacturer 's championship for GT cars with his Shelby Daytona coupes . |
| 23 | COLERAINE plumber Peter Bell was overcome when he won the 400 newcomers race at the Manx Grand Prix after arch rival Ian McVeighty ran out of fuel . |
| 24 | Mr Maxwell annoyed councillors when he bought the six properties at above market prices and them boarded them up . |
| 25 | When he put the two tubes in a 's territory ( A ) , a tried to attack and b to flee ; and vice versa . |
| 26 | They are watching me , thought Rupert Stonebird , as he saw the two women walking rather too slowly down the road . |
| 27 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 28 | Trent almost laughed with relief as he imagined the six-foot-four Customs officer at the wheel , empty pipe jammed between his teeth . |
| 29 | They could hear his footsteps across the gangplank , then a heavier one as he dropped the eighteen inch gap on to Grace 's deck . |
| 30 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |