Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 3 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 4 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 5 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 6 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 7 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 8 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 9 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 10 | He took her into the next room , performed a little pantomime of swivelling hips and stormy eyes , then wrapped his arm around her . |
| 11 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 12 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 13 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 14 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 15 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 16 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 17 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |
| 18 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |