Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally . |
| 2 | Let us return to the paper by Bolinger ( 1967 ) already discussed in Chapter 3 , in which he makes a second major claim ( that there is a fundamental division among adjectives between those which , as he sees it , qualify the referent of the noun to which they are attached , and those which qualify its sense . |
| 3 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Sofia on Aug. 3 as the guest of President Zhelyu Zhelev , with whom he held a first round of talks the same day , signing a 10-year treaty of friendship and cooperation before leaving on Aug. 4 . |
| 4 | From beneath it he pulled a fifth of rum . |
| 5 | Interrupted by what he terms a second wave of moral regeneration and repression in the nineteenth century , it resumes its onward march from the 1860s , to the present . |