Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 2 | So he gets the first and decide what you wan na get to . |
| 3 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 4 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 5 | And you 've got ta get them like this so he sees the next one coming so he does n't think ooh , he 's seen this , he 's thinking of this one and not this one . |
| 6 | Whenever there was a movement by the woodpile , the sniper fired , and soon he hit a third man . |
| 7 | Agassi withdrew last Friday from the grass court event in Halle , but yesterday he took the last remaining wild card reserved for him by tournament organisers hopeful he would be fit to play . |
| 8 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 9 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 10 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 11 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 12 | Carefully he scraped every last vestige of ice-cream from his bowl , then stood up . |
| 13 | I do notice one or two places , though , where Ciccolini departs form the Durand text — e.g. he plays the fourth and sixth quarte of the study in fourths as E and A instead of G and C , and the second quaver in bar 10 of the final ‘ chords ’ study is a G minor chord where G major is printed ( though we get G major in the reprise at 4′18″ ) . |
| 14 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 15 | Today he begins the third week of a hunger strike . |
| 16 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 17 | It did not please him ; almost he wished the first pledge back again , so naked did he feel now without his armour of obstinacy . |
| 18 | Then he ordered the second charge . |
| 19 | He seemed about to leave — walked to the door , in any case — but when he reached the foot of the bed , he took hold of the brass upright and pulled the bed out into the room ; then he carried a second ladderback chair to the head of the bed and sat down behind Annie . |
| 20 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 22 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 23 | Then he noticed the third cup with some dregs of tea remaining in it ! |
| 24 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |
| 25 | We walked past three doors , then he opened the next and showed me into the study . |
| 26 | Then he swallowed the last of his drink , shrugged , turned back . |
| 27 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 28 | Watch how he scored the second — and that 's 3 goals in 3 games . |
| 29 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 30 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |