Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 2 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 4 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 5 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 6 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 7 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 8 | Displaying remarkable maturity for a 22-year-old he has emerged in the last 18 months as the game 's outstanding personality , a player blessed with the full range of skills , someone with an unflappable temperament to match . |
| 9 | He has played in the last nine reserve matches . |
| 10 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 11 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what action he has taken in the last six months to protect hosiery and knitwear manufacturers from dumped third-world imports . |
| 13 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 14 | He needs to leap into the next league . |
| 15 | He is not always reliable , but he may well be correct when he mentions that there were other candidates , including John of Salerno , cardinal priest of St Stefano in Celiomonte ( who he says withdrew from the second ballot ) , and possibly Jordan of Fossanova , former abbot of Ceccano , cardinal priest of St Pudenziana , and Gratian , cardinal deacon of SS . |
| 16 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 17 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 18 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first . |
| 20 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 21 | He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John . |
| 22 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 23 | He intends to wait until the last moment before making the vital decision on taxes . |
| 24 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
| 25 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 26 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 27 | He began to run after the first taxi , but it was soon out of sight . |
| 28 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |