Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 2 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 3 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 4 | His published analysis of the cholera cases he attended during the 1832 epidemic drew attention to the correlations between disease and environment ( in particular the habitations , principally in cellars and courts , of the poor ) . |
| 5 | I do n't suppose he remembers her name now , any more than he remembers the names of the dozens of other women he seduced during the ten years of our marriage . |
| 6 | Of the four biographies he published in the 1930s , Frank Harris ( 1932 ) was a witty and ironic exercise in demythology , identifying his one-time literary hero as an inverted puritan ‘ with a heart of borrowed gold ’ ; and his Samuel Johnson ( 1933 ) a succinct and humane study of ‘ an intensely loving and compassionate soul handicapped in its expression by lifelong disabilities of mind and body ’ . |
| 7 | However , although there seems indeed to be a return to ‘ History ’ ( in Simonian terms ) and an apparent abandonment of the scriptural narcissism of the self-generating novels he produced in the 1970s , this view also rests on a historicizing version of the development of Simon 's fiction . |
| 8 | This of course is what inspired Thor Heyerdahl 's dramatic Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed on a raft from South America to Polynesia , thus hoping to prove that he was following in the wake of ancient migration routes which could explain the cultural similarities he found between the two culture areas . |
| 9 | In this sense the very high ‘ yes ’ votes he achieved in the four presidential elections since independence have been genuine , but should not be mistaken for support for specific policies , and still less for support for other leaders at either the local or national level . |