Example sentences of "[vb past] he [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that same year he married his cousin Helen , daughter of John and Joanna Smyth , and between 1797 and 1805 she bore him six daughters and two sons . |
| 2 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 3 | She bore him two daughters and was buried 13 June 1691 , five days after her husband . |
| 4 | Betty bore him two daughters . |
| 5 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |
| 6 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
| 7 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 8 | He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him , and she bore him three sons . |
| 9 | She visited him two days later , just after he had cut his thumb on the mouse-trap and was bleeding into the sink . |
| 10 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 11 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 12 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 13 | We found him thirty levels down , bound and drugged . ’ |
| 14 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |
| 15 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 16 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 17 | His twenty-rod patch cost him twelve shillings a year in rent and produced not only sufficient potatoes to feed the family from late May round to April the following year , but also a variety of other vegetables . |
| 18 | Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio . |
| 19 | It cost him two marriages . |
| 20 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 21 | No if he cost him three X , what 's he gon na sell them for ? |
| 22 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 23 | Perhaps four or five minutes , though it certainly seemed more ; Moxie guessed ten minutes , and Gildas later told her that Ludens told him fifteen minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm to be on the committee of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows , ’ she told him one day . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 26 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 27 | Even told him one day , ‘ Let's go travelling , escape from our lush paradise |
| 28 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 29 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 30 | His contract allowed him fifteen francs a day , if Zborowski could manage it , to cover all his needs . |