Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
2 yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job
3 He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas .
4 He hooked badly off the second tee , was unplayable and took six .
5 He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett .
6 Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes .
7 At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time .
8 He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board .
9 The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade .
10 He was also afraid that when he turned up for the next practice , Amber and Jeopardy 's argument would be resolved , and he would no longer be required .
11 The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three .
12 Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford .
13 Then , treading carefully , he followed on behind the last Moi trackers .
14 Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears .
15 As he walked up beside the 17th Patrick met O'Grady trudging disconsolately back to the tee to play a second ball .
16 He walked straight from the 18th green to the 10th tee . ’
17 As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him .
18 He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other .
19 The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee .
20 When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key .
21 He served also on the next major court to try James Hamilton ( third Marquis and first Duke of Hamilton ) , Arthur Capel ( first Baron Capel of Hadham ) , and Sir Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] for treason , signing their death-warrant on 6 March 1649 .
22 He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying .
23 He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play .
24 Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day .
25 At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign .
26 But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team .
27 Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words .
28 Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game .
29 He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life .
30 He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices .
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