Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 2 | A friend and follower of William Blake in his youth , Palmer was living in great poverty when he received the commission to illustrate Pictures From Italy after Stanfield 's defection ; time was short , and he provided not the 12 plates originally planned but four vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 3 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 4 | He said he remembered well the 1972 Teesside Law Courts , now used as magistrates courts only . |
| 5 | I wondered if he had just the one broker . |
| 6 | Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride . |
| 7 | Thus he held together the two things which in the Enlightenment tended to fall apart , and to be defined in opposition to each other — faith against knowledge , revelation against reason . |
| 8 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 9 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 10 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 11 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |