Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 2 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 3 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 4 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 5 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 6 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 7 | For thirty-one years he was a fellow of the Linnean Society , serving on the council in 1921–4 and 1927–32 , being vice-president in 1931–2 and president in 1927–31 . |
| 8 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 9 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 10 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 11 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 12 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 13 | After 35 days he became jaundiced . |
| 14 | Curran referred later to his ‘ Irish birth without an Irish upbringing ’ , since after three weeks he left Dublin for Aberdeen , his mother 's native home . |
| 15 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 16 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 17 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 18 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 19 | Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed . |
| 20 | After three days he had limped home , crippled by blisters . |
| 21 | He took lots of notes and after three days he said , ‘ Raymond , I want to give you a check . |
| 22 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 23 | He says , ‘ All right , 125 ’ ; and then after ten minutes he says , ‘ On your way , ’ so I got dressed and went out and thought , ‘ Now I 'm for it , ’ but I heard nothing more . |
| 24 | After fifteen minutes he was crouched over tyre marks on the grass verge between the pavement and the road . |
| 25 | After fifteen years he was still pursuing his feud against his master-mason , unwilling to let even his bones rest . |
| 26 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 27 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 28 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 29 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
| 30 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |