Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 2 | the bell to get the bus to stop and he goes to the next flaming stop ! |
| 3 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 4 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 5 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 6 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 7 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
| 8 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 10 | ‘ He went under the second bookable offence rule , ’ stormed McCarthy . |
| 11 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
| 13 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
| 14 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |