Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 2 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 3 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 4 | Gerard handed Katherine her cup , and Mr Lee took a certain small pleasure in allowing him to pass over the second cup , even though he could have easily reached out and taken it . |
| 5 | It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) . |
| 6 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 7 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 8 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 9 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 10 | To encourage Lewis in this direction , Eliot gave him to review in the next year Egyptian Mummies and Essays on the Evolution of Man by Elliot Smith , as well as Medicine , Magic and Religion by W. H. R. Rivers . |
| 11 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 12 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 13 | He pounced in the 30th minute , rifling home a super shot from 20 yards in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 14 | Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage |
| 15 | He lived in the last tomb , a bare chamber with a mat , a kettle , a kerosene stove and a radio which did n't work . |
| 16 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 17 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 18 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 19 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 20 | He had the reputation for being clever but lacking in tact or discretion , and held only a minor post in Grey 's Government of 1853 to 1855 , and although he remained an MP until 1883 , when he succeeded as the tenth Earl of Wemyss and March , he never held office again . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 22 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 23 | so er I 've got to keep him off school today and see how he goes over the next day or two . |
| 24 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 25 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 26 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 27 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 28 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 29 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 30 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |