Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 2 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 3 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 4 | For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War . |
| 5 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
| 6 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 7 | He had never enjoyed the thought of making love in a standing position since the embarrassment he had suffered on the last occasion , about a year before . |
| 8 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 9 | The judges decided 7-0 against Mr Santos on the grounds that the party he had joined at the last minute in order to stand , the little-known Brazilian Municipalist Party which was founded by Pentecostal preachers , had failed to register in time . |
| 10 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 11 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 12 | Although Creggan had progressed northwards well he had slowed during the last day or two as he grew tired easily and rested by feeding off rubbish dumps he had seen where gulls and crows fed . |
| 13 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 14 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 15 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 16 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 17 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 18 | Yet she had to admit he had changed over the last few days . |
| 19 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
| 20 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 21 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
| 22 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 23 | When this ounce was available for examination Dr Macdonald selected the largest piece , the one he had spotted in the second X-ray , deeply impacted into a piece of bone and buried inside the young man 's spleen . |
| 24 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 25 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 26 | He had started on the second chair when Dadda shouted up the stairs . |
| 27 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 28 | Kaas had said nothing , had just wondered what they would say about his public image if they ever discovered the extent of the terrorist acts he had unleashed in the last few months . |