Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 2 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 3 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 4 | He 'd called the next day , and Marlin had picked up . |
| 5 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 6 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 7 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 8 | Then he began to shift the first screen and leaned it against an adjoining stretch of wall . |
| 9 | He decided to spend the last hour at the local pub . |
| 10 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 11 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 12 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 13 | But he denied killing the third member of the film crew , Mr della Casa 's wife , Rosanna , who has never been found , said the newspaper . |
| 14 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 15 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 16 | He had lost the second war in the Great Battle of the universe and had forfeited his power over humankind for ever . |
| 17 | He had lost the first action in 1926 , failed on appeal and finally won the action in 1934 . |
| 18 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 19 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 20 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 21 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 22 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 23 | There is a story that when he had dictated the last sentence of his monumental Summa Theologiae , he laid his head in his hands sadly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By the time he had reached the fourth verse Athelstan was already distracted . |
| 26 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 27 | By June , however , he had sent the first draft of three scenes to Browne and asked him if it was worth continuing . |
| 28 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 29 | Willie was so exhausted from the day 's labours that he did n't know whether he had dreamt the last remark or not . |
| 30 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |