Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 2 | Harris returned with a ‘ great store of grafts ’ including the famous Pippins , from which he grew the first ever modern-style orchard at Teynham in Kent . |
| 3 | There was widespread regret when Butler resigned , in 1935 , to join the Agricultural Research Council , of which he became the first paid secretary . |
| 4 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 5 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 6 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 7 | The most enthusiastic advocate of ‘ Gregorian ’ liberty during these years was Hugh , bishop of Die and later archbishop of Lyons , whom Anselm first met on his way to Rome in 1097 , and with whom he spent the last eighteen months of his exile from May 1099 to August 1100 . |
| 8 | Philip Miller much respected Hugh Percy ( 1715–1786 ) the second Earl , and later first Duke , of Northumberland , to whom he dedicated the sixth , seventh and eighth editions of the Dictionary , referring to many improvements to his estates and particularly to his plantations in ‘ a Country almost destitute of Timber ’ . |
| 9 | As he reached them he heard the first of the police sirens in the distance . |
| 10 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 11 | and you , it was alright , and guess what he stacked the first day he was there ? |
| 12 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |