Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] he [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Mr Yeltsin is still far from winning the two-thirds majority he needs to get a new constitution adopted . |
| 2 | One afternoon he had shared a pot of coffee with Dorothy , at her invitation . |
| 3 | In one scene he had to take a handkerchief out of his pocket , and in the process shower Maggie Smith with nuts . |
| 4 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 5 | On one occasion he had found a sheep 's head jammed between some of the stones . |
| 6 | One day he had taken a walk in the country , and had surprised two lovers in a wood . |
| 7 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 8 | One day he arrived to give a new-born filly post-foaling antibiotic and tetanus cover . |
| 9 | On the one hand he had developed a taste for study , which he nourished with a diet of steady and wide reading . |
| 10 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 11 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 12 | At one time he intended to become a Catholic and even at one stage a priest . |
| 13 | For seven days Seb was isolated at the farm , yet despite the handicap of a crutch tucked beneath one arm he managed to dig a narrow path linking the house , dairy , hen-house , stables and cow-shed . |