Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] he [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the eleventh hour he managed to prevent a sheriff 's officer from taking goods from his home to pay off outstanding business debts . |
| 2 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 3 | Preston denied this with some zest , pointing out that it was the first time he 'd thrown a punch at anyone since his days in the ring with Cobber the kangaroo . |
| 4 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 5 | It was the first time he had conceded a game since building the device three years earlier . |
| 6 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 7 | I watched , fascinated , for this was the first time he had confronted a murderer with a plausible explanation but very little proof . |
| 8 | He felt as he had in Oxford , the first time he had taken a girl out with a packet of French letters in his wallet . |
| 9 | It was the first time he had taken a real look at the premises from the back . |
| 10 | It was the first time he had brought a girl home and both he and Janine were nervous . |
| 11 | As a last resort he decided to take a leaf out of the Oriental 's book , by using psychological warfare against him . |
| 12 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 13 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 14 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 15 | Last night he 'd gone a work . |
| 16 | And Keegan revealed last night he plans to complete a second deal . |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman had been in earlier , he would have heard the hon. Member for Harrow , East ( Mr. Dykes ) saying that last week he had attended a debate on this subject in the Bundestag . |
| 18 | He is always optimistic — last year he had to learn a good line in fighting talk to combat Kocinski 's outbursts . |
| 19 | Des Thompson , a specialist in animal heart disease , carried out the operation at his Earlswood surgery in Belmont Road , Belfast — only the third time he has fitted a pacemaker . |