Example sentences of "he [verb] [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 2 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 3 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 4 | He became one of the twelve peers of the kingdom , taking his place beside the count of Flanders , the duke of Burgundy and the count of Anjou . |
| 5 | He had financed Turner 's journey to Venice in 1833 and in 1844 he became one of the four trustees of Turner 's charity for the relief of decayed and indigent artists . |
| 6 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 7 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 8 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 9 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 10 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 11 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 12 | After a year on the Economist he became one of the original members of the Conservative Research Department ( 1930–8 ) under its first director , Sir G. Joseph Ball [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | By his appointment as permanent under-secretary of state for the colonies in 1956 , he became one of the few overseas service officers to assume the top post . |
| 14 | During his career at Chapman & Hall he became one of the few close friends of Evelyn Waugh , and in the Second World War took over many jobs in the firm , including that of production manager of the general list . |
| 15 | When the uneasy initial co-operation of the authorities was broken by the oath to Joseph ( April 1809 ) Duhesme 's corrupt military government was served by Casanova : a profiteer in identity cards , ransoms , and municipal marketing , an adventurer with a mistress and a mansion , he became one of the richest , as well as the most powerful man , in occupied Barcelona . |
| 16 | Even before he became one of the pioneering geneticists , William Bateson ( 1861–1926 ) had abandoned Darwinism and had begun to insist that evolution is driven by discontinuous variations or saltations . |
| 17 | Intelligent and articulate he became one of the driving forces in relaunching the fortunes of the Bègles club . |
| 18 | He arranged parties and expeditions for inspecting churches and old buildings both in London and in the country ; he became one of the public advocates of the Gothic style for modern buildings ; he caught at every opportunity of designing a lodge or a farmhouse or any other building . |
| 19 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 20 | As the slack came in , he got one of the uniformed men to cut the line away from Gomez 's legs and retie it to the line on the rod . |
| 21 | He got one of the local uniformed men . |
| 22 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |
| 23 | He wants one of the chairs , Bobby , out of the Bobby , he wants one of the big chairs upstairs out of your room . |
| 24 | He was to have to wait until 1987 when , amid great grey curtains of mist and murk , he played one of the greatest of championship courses , Muirfield , by parring every hole in the last round . |
| 25 | Instead , he was put into Sydney Pollack 's They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? , in which he played one of the many self-pitying characters struggling through a marathon dance contest . |
| 26 | He lifted one of the plump feet and let it drop again to show us how lifeless it was . |
| 27 | While there he received one of the fateful telegrams that were to dot the history of the underground : ‘ Phone Hoppy ’ it said . |
| 28 | Taking Peter 's agreement for granted , he opened one of the bottom drawers of the desk and removed an envelope file . |
| 29 | Afterwards , he returned to the desk , where he opened one of the smaller drawers , and from it counted out a number of shiny coins … totalling four guineas in all . |
| 30 | He sampled one of the other dishes on the table but did not like it because it was cold . |