Example sentences of "that he [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 2 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 3 | The dream grew faster and faster and more and more desperate , because he knew that he had to reach the last box before the end of the day . |
| 4 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 5 | ‘ I signed for Jack one day and read on Teletext that he had quit the next . |
| 6 | ‘ The Red what ? ’ said the Exec Director , pleased that he had deciphered the first word of the new code-name . |
| 7 | Mr. Duggan said that he had enjoyed the last four years . |
| 8 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 9 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 10 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 11 | Richard Cocco Senior at the Palisade Music Company would like the bass playing world to know that he has developed the first 4-wrap low B bass string , as part of the R. Cocco 5-string bass set . |