Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 2 | so er I 've got to keep him off school today and see how he goes over the next day or two . |
| 3 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 4 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 5 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 6 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 7 | ‘ Here 's fifty , ’ he shouts at the next table . |
| 8 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 9 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 10 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 11 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 12 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 13 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Furthermore he has a particular site in mind , as he reveals in the next round of the negotiations . |
| 15 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 16 | He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two . |
| 17 | The officer at Leicester 's not available at the moment , so he hopes by the next meeting erm if Leeds have an opportunity to see that letter , and perhaps have a short report on what this council does with respect to Nestle/1 and also what other councils have done . |
| 18 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
| 19 | Once Turrican has fought his way past two end-of-level guardians , he moves onto the next section . |
| 20 | And then , with his foundations once more rightly in place , he continues in the second half of his letter to spell out the specific relevance of faith in Christ for daily living , particularly in this arena of relationships . |
| 21 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 22 | Immediately after his generalization about " " eelde " " he returns to the first person plural — " " owre olde lemes " " ( 3886 ) — and within two lines is back to " " ik " " . |
| 23 | And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ? |
| 24 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |