Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 2 | His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel . |
| 3 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 4 | Whether it was when he 'd scored 10 or at some other delicate fulcrum in his innings that the Smallholder decided that he 'd sufficiently built his innings and could start unleashing his shots I know not , but the incontrovertible fact was that by tea he had 34 to his name , including five boundaries . |
| 5 | What the prosecution must now prove is that D was committing a crime ( not being a crime of negligence or a crime of omission ) , that in committing this crime he caused V 's death , and that what he did when committing this crime was objectively dangerous . |
| 6 | As was his normal practice he sold one of the hire cars when it was no more use to the business . |
| 7 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 8 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 9 | No wonder he had three bloody blood tests the other day then . |
| 10 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 11 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 12 | He subsequently joined the merchant service , rising in due course to become commander of a transport vessel , in which capacity he accompanied one of the expeditions to Greenland led by Sir William Parry [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | On the outward run he achieved 297 m.p.h . |
| 14 | Beside the ‘ Date Entered School ’ column he saw one marked ‘ Date Left School ’ , and noticed it was completely empty . |
| 15 | During a five-week period in Lent he gave 19 concerts , some at the homes of aristocrats such as Count Johann Esterházy and the Russian Ambassador , Prince Golitsin , and some privately organized by himself . |
| 16 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At the start of the rehearsal he saw one of the violinists playing in a slovenly way , with the neck of his instrument pointing towards the floor . |
| 19 | It was stated that the 20-month-old child he killed twelve years earlier was a named woman 's ‘ illegitimate son ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 21 | Studying at home he got four top grade GCSEs and astounded academics at St Hugh 's College . |
| 22 | In return he earned billions . |
| 23 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 24 | I 'm not forgetting Ashenden , ’ replied Morse quietly , as taking out his Parker pen he wrote three d.o.b.s on a table napkin : |
| 25 | Later in the war he commanded two more divisions , before being sent to Berlin early in 1919 as the head of the British military mission . |
| 26 | He does n't really , I think at the moment he takes one and er he does n't sort of take them like |
| 27 | It was , though , a gesture that was pretty much in character , for he never lacked confidence from the moment he scored 156 in his first county match for Sussex . |
| 28 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 29 | as if to prove his point he drew one long finger over her cheek , trailing it over her bottom lip , his eyes glinting reprovingly when she tried to bite . |
| 30 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |