Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 2 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 3 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
| 4 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 5 | It was his grandparents he spent his first Christmas with . |
| 6 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 7 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 8 | As a teenager he dropped his first name , Paul , and used only his second name , Jackson . |
| 9 | In the blue light of the morning he breathed his last . |
| 10 | In the city of Cologne he visited his first night club . |
| 11 | Driving home from the theatre he pondered his next move . |
| 12 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 13 | With poetic licence he described their first meeting : |
| 14 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |
| 15 | When he came off the line he smiled his first genuine smile in Edward 's presence . |
| 16 | In the summer he made his last will , and assembled a vast army to take Jerusalem from the great Saracen leader Saladin . |
| 17 | Sick Sick Sick he called his first collection and subtitled it ‘ A Guide to Non-Confident Living ’ . |
| 18 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |
| 19 | In the end he achieved his last object first . |
| 20 | In Edinburgh he published his first pamphlet , Considerations on the Propriety of Establishing a Colony on one of the Sandwich Islands , in 1816 . |
| 21 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 22 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 23 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
| 24 | On 27 September of the same year he published his first book , Galfredus Petrus , Opus sane de deorum dearumque gentilium genealogia ( STC 19816.5 ) , from his new premises near the conduit in Fleet Street , where his printing-house remained for the rest of his life . |
| 25 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 26 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 27 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |