Example sentences of "[vb past] he [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 2 | But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’ |
| 3 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 4 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 7 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 8 | So , ‘ Goodnight , ’ she bade him a second time , her goodnight this time , however , sounding husky and hasty as she started to hurry back to her room . |
| 9 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 10 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 11 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 12 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 13 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 14 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 15 | Jamie Spence 's win in the Canon European Masters made him the sixth first-time winner on this season 's Volvo Tour . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 17 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 18 | But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance , and sent him a second summons to appear the following week . |
| 19 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 20 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 21 | As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance . |
| 22 | Nowadays , she probably never even gave him a second thought . |
| 23 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 24 | Selim shook hands again and gave him a second look . |
| 25 | I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance . |
| 26 | Charlie parted with a penny and was handed a bagful , but no one even gave him a second glance . |
| 27 | At special stage 20 , the valiant 24-year-old Scot gunned his accelerator as the marshals gave him a five-second countdown . |
| 28 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 29 | She gave him a last long look and went out , shutting it with unnecessary firmness behind her . |
| 30 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |