Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure . |
| 2 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 3 | Mungo predicted that if he ignored her a second time , she would go away . |
| 4 | Celia 's patience snapped when he poured her the second glass of retsina . |
| 5 | Checking his watch , he poured himself a last drink and sank into one of the easy chairs before the fire . |
| 6 | Eventually , he climbed them a second time , very deliberately . |
| 7 | He returned them the next day , asking for a refund . |
| 8 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 9 | He sent me the first Education sentimentale ; I was not greatly impressed , but how could I not praise it ? |
| 10 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 11 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 12 | When he did it a second time , I put the light out . |
| 13 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |
| 14 | On the morning of the funeral , he gave her a last farewell kiss as she lay in her coffin . |
| 15 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 16 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |