Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was funny , actually it was on that one , I think he was a little bit erm sexually-orientated more than average this gentleman , cos he 'd got the four poster bed . |
| 2 | He said a bargain was a bargain ; he had found the treasure , he had risked the Caliph 's wrath , and he had killed the three assassins . |
| 3 | He had lost the one person who believed in him , the one person whom he could trust with his innermost thoughts . |
| 4 | he had lost the two centre top teeth , and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose . |
| 5 | He was a big , shambling , shy man , more than a little soured by life , but he had taken the two boys under his wing and Preston had loved him . |
| 6 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 7 | Even more amazing , he is alleged to have told confidants before he died last month that , far from being the spoils of two decades of looting the Treasury , he had found the 400 tons of bullion just after the war in a northern province of the Philippines . |
| 8 | He had forbidden the two girls to attend the Requiem Mass because he said it would upset them too much . |
| 9 | At a dinner to celebrate his 25 years , said of that he was an example to everybody in terms of hard work and leadership and recalled how in the snow of 1982 he had walked the five miles from his home and Playford to be at his desk at the normal time . |
| 10 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | His restlessness was deep rooted , ever since he had passed the two boys he had been aware of a more profound , a more stark malaise in his condition . |
| 12 | On Sept. 16 he had signed the 1975 Helsinki Final Act [ see pp. 27301-09 ] in Helsinki . |
| 13 | This was obviously a better fish and after netting it ( using a more orthodox approach ) I knew he had cracked the twenty barrier . |
| 14 | He had opened the 1961 claret for them because that was the wine he and Dom had chosen to drink and it had n't occurred to him to offer his guests less . |
| 15 | He had n't loved Vanessa , but he had enjoyed the fourteen months they 'd spent together here . |
| 16 | He had bought the 1815 house four years previously , when it was a mere shell . |