Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led to the final 250 metres , before falling back to last . |
| 2 | He encouraged to take the examiner 's examination and he qualified in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | The urgency and decisiveness with which he moved over the following six months contrasted markedly with his tentative performance in the post-liberation period and obviously reflected the hard lessons that he had learned . |
| 4 | Following disagreements with the Genevan authorities , he moved in the later 1960s , first to London and then to Banbury , where he died 10 November 1976 , having arranged with the University of Oxford for the bequest of his scholarly research interests ( the Voltaire Foundation ) to the Taylor Institution there . |
| 5 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 6 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 7 | ‘ The boxes , ’ he gestured to the other two sides of the yard , ‘ have always been here . |
| 8 | He added after the 7-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 shocker : ‘ I thought I had a chance to come back but it ended so fast . |
| 9 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He walked along the same three or four streets twice until it seemed pointless to continue . |
| 14 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 15 | Hollein is best known to New Yorkers for the townhouse on East 79th Street he renovated in the late Sixties to house Richard Feigen 's gallery ( it 's now the Hanae Mori shop ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster , Anthony Hamilton , as he eased into the last 16 . |
| 19 | He went to the top eight accountancy firms in London , all of which offered him a job . |
| 20 | The Abbot of Battle , John Hammond , took an annual pension of £100 , worth possibly £10,000 in our currency , almost tax-free to boot , and settled in the town where he died in the later 1540s . |
| 21 | He looked at the other two men . |
| 22 | He looked for the other two aircraft . |
| 23 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 26 | And in 1982 Gemayel still saw it as he had in the late 1930s , as a movement of renewal that prepared Lebanon 's young Christians for independence and civic responsibility . |
| 27 | Is it not about time that he said to the 44 million voters who are sick and tired of the phoney election campaign that the general election will be on 9 April ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never learned to play the piano , ’ he said in the early Sixties . |
| 29 | His company , National Airways which he ran in the early 1980s provided great adventure too . |
| 30 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |