Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
2 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
3 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
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 | He had completed the second nine in 29 for a round of 68 and a total of 273 , finishing with six successive birdies . |
6 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory . |
9 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
10 | Mr. Duggan said that he had enjoyed the last four years . |
11 | Those misses obviously eroded Barnes ' confidence , and he tended to play the last half hour of the game with the weight of the world on his shoulders . |