Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 2 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 3 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 4 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 5 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
| 6 | These ethico-political concerns formed the basis of his early works on madness : as he announced in his first book , Mental Illness and Psychology ( 1954 ) : |
| 7 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 8 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 9 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 10 | There was an ‘ Oof ! ’ of expelled air as the man fell to his knees , his broad shoulders heaving as he strained for his next breath . |
| 11 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 12 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 13 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 14 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 15 | Also I know that my coach at North Harbour , Peter Thorburn , was very impressed with Ian when he played for us last summer . |
| 16 | They encroached upon him very early , leading to imaginative experiences very like those wild and rumbustious scenes he describes in his first novel . |
| 17 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 18 | In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond , and at the invitation of Parker . |
| 19 | When ambitions to become an opera singer and then a sports writer failed , he turned to his third interest — car racing . |
| 20 | ‘ America has a lot of assets , ’ he claimed in his last speech to congress , ‘ we should cash in on them . ’ |
| 21 | I thought : what did he see as his last sight on earth ? |
| 22 | ‘ Onward , Christian soldiers ! ’ boomed my father , as he hammered in his first piton . |
| 23 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 25 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 26 | NIGEL MANSELL may be about to give Formula One a much-needed lift when he competes in his first Indycar race at the street circuit of Surfers ' Paradise in Queensland , Australia , on Sunday . |
| 27 | Andre Agassi 's stay in Key Biscayne was depressingly short as he lost in his first match to one of what seemed countless unheralded other Americans , Bryan Shelton . |
| 28 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 29 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 30 | I felt slightly uneasy with the direction he took in his last book , Under Siege , in which Coonts ' hero Jake Grafton forsook the jet fuel , grease and steam-slick decks of nuclear carriers for the even more treacherous corridors of the Pentagon , and The Cannibal Queen has n't reassured me that he 's back on track . |