Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
2 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
3 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
4 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
5 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
6 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
7 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
8 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
9 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
10 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
11 | Sean Yates produced one of Britain 's best results with 13th place , after he cramped in the last 200 yards when sprinting for third place . |
12 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
13 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
14 | These , combined with a particular interest in curative education for children with mental and physical handicaps , he developed over the next eleven years in the course of attachments to children 's hospitals and homes in Austria , Switzerland , and Silesia ( in Germany at that time ) , and , by 1936 , in private practice in Vienna . |
15 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
16 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
17 | Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster , Anthony Hamilton , as he eased into the last 16 . |
18 | ‘ He went under the second bookable offence rule , ’ stormed McCarthy . |
19 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
20 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
21 | An example of such a clause is one which says the employee is not to canvass or solicit during a period of five years from the date of the determination of this agreement for whatever reason any person , company or firm who were customers of the employer with whom he dealt during the last three years of his employment . |
22 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
23 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
24 | Li Yuan swallowed , sensing that everything depended on what he said in the next few moments ; that his father had not quite made up his mind , even now . |
25 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
26 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
27 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
28 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |