Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] he [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 2 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 3 | His inward half of 33 was fine golf and contained only one lucky break when he missed the 16th green but scrambled down in two when it would have been much easier to take three . |
| 4 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 5 | White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame . |
| 6 | The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham-Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . |
| 7 | He lowered his head because he remembered the fourth person all right , but he did n't want to tell Ezzie about it . |
| 8 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 9 | He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads . |
| 10 | Chris Broad looked set for a good knock as he crashed the first four of the day … but Gloucestershire then got themselves into trouble against the bowling of Gordon Harris … |
| 11 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 12 | His chuckle was rich , and his eyes creased in amusement as he narrowed the last little gap between them . |
| 13 | Hertz confirmed Maxwell 's theory when he detected the first radio waves . |
| 14 | However , it ran out in its turn as he reached the next storey , occupied , Sunil had told him , by upper servants . |
| 15 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 16 | There was a pause when he ended the First Mystery . |
| 17 | The next night , Captain Edward ( Ted ) Parsons RE and his paddler , Leading Seaman Irvine , prepared to land , Ted Parsons taking a ducking as he tried the first time to board the canoe in a nasty swell . |
| 18 | At about the same time ( July 1956 ) Lord Rothermere decided to sell most of his 50 per cent Daily Mail stake in Associated-Rediffusion ; and he sold the remainder when he took a third of the shares in the new South/South-East franchise holder , Southern TV , in 1958 . |
| 19 | Sharpe had to duck under a low chestnut branch as he turned the next corner to see , five hundred yards ahead of him , the wide village street . |
| 20 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |
| 21 | Despite the record unpopularity of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , the 2,500 delegates gave him a warm reception as he promised a third consecutive PCP victory in the federal elections due in 1993 . |
| 22 | He looked briefly at his son as he said the last few words , conscious that the boy was watching everything . |