Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 2 | Scott Reading was the focal point of a close finish as he tried to protect a five shot lead over the closing three ends after fantastic work by Paul Maynard 's rink . |
| 3 | ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said . |
| 4 | He has written a five page article about his illness in a Darlington medical journal and to celebrate his gradual return to good health he has started to learn the piano . |
| 5 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 6 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 7 | Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin . |
| 8 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 9 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 10 | Well he 'd got a seven year old girl copying him had n't he ? |
| 11 | He started leaving a ten pound note on the table every morning when he went out to work . |
| 12 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 13 | And people are making much of the fact the Apple 's John Sculley said he expects to sell a million PowerPC Macs next year . |
| 14 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 15 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 16 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 17 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 18 | Since his arrest in England , he had married a 16 year old girl who was pregnant by him and who had now had a child . |
| 19 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |
| 20 | Souness believes the sell-out Anfield crowd could make Spartak Moscow crumble as he bids to recover a 4–2 Cup Winners ' Cup deficit . |
| 21 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 22 | But he he 's got a two lines on one phone |
| 23 | He 's got a two inch gap out of his arm , he 's got tooth and claw marks to his arms and a long gash half an inch deep to his knee . |
| 24 | Pound can talk all he likes about the cultural lag in America … but he 's got a 200 year political lag in himself . |
| 25 | Well he 's got a three D station . |
| 26 | Ask daddy if he 's got a ten pence . |
| 27 | ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . " |