Example sentences of "he [prep] the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 2 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 3 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 4 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 5 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 6 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 7 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 8 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 9 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 10 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 11 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 12 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 13 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 14 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 15 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 16 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 17 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
| 18 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
| 19 | R. H. Sherard nursed him during the last six months of his life . |
| 20 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 21 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 23 | But Italy 's defence was in chaos without him in the dismal 2–2 draw with Switzerland in their opening qualifying tie and he changed his mind yesterday under pressure from his wife and Italian federation president Antonio Matarrese . |
| 24 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 25 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 26 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 27 | On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 28 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 29 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 30 | However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days . |