Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one of his birdie putts was more than 12 feet as he continued to pepper the pins . |
| 2 | The court last year heard he almost put down on the A4 at rush-hour , skimmed the Penta Hotel , and missed a telephone exchange by 12 feet as he approached Heathrow . |
| 3 | ‘ Keep still , do n't panic , and you 'll be all right , ’ Trent told the three men as he handed them into the boat . |
| 4 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 5 | PHIL SIMMONS smashed 17 boundaries as he raced to a brilliant 106 in only 150 minutes for the West Indies yesterday . |
| 6 | Chatfield 's ball-handling and kicking skills saw Rovers race to an 11-0 lead in the opening 25 minutes as he set up tries for Aussie centre David Liddiard and second rower Andy Thompson . |
| 7 | Since a version of this argument was repeated in his broadcast talks and made a linchpin of Lewis 's defence of Christianity , it may be profitable to lay down our books for five minutes as he urged us to do when thinking of a world without chloroform and meditate on what he has laid before us . |
| 8 | Paul Biddle squandered another chance for Milton on seventy one minutes as he put the ball wide from close range and then with ten minutes remaining , Fairmile offered themselves a glimmer of hope as Wayne Glossop fired home through a ruck of players . |
| 9 | Defending champion Huggett , the former Ryder Cup skipper , missed six putts of under five feet as he slipped to a 73 for a two round aggregate of 145 — three over par . |
| 10 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 11 | A medieval visitor to Cambridge would have passed twelve churches as he walked through the town , roughly a hundred yards apart over a stretch of a mile ; and Cambridge was a very modest town . |
| 12 | The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes . |
| 13 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 14 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 15 | Leslie 's life hung in the balance for more than two weeks as he lay in a coma in the intensive care unit at the hospital , which has a specialist head injuries unit . |
| 16 | A YOUNG doctor was attacked by two youths as he walked his dogs on a Middlesbrough housing estate . |
| 17 | Police are appealing for witnesses after Thomas McKeowen , 48 , of Mattison Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was brutally attacked and robbed by two youths as he opened his front . |
| 18 | Yanto looked at the two girls as he spoke . |
| 19 | CHARLES BOYD took his points haul to 131 in four games as he led Brixton Topcats , the pacesetters in the National League First Division , to a 115-86 win over Corby Fliers . |
| 20 | On June 30 the commander of the Fatah militias in southern Lebanon , Anwar Madi , was shot dead in an ambush by two men as he drove from Sidon to his office in the Ain Helweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the town . |
| 21 | A press attaché at the Turkish embassy in Athens , Cetin Gorgu , was shot dead by two men as he began his drive to work on Oct. 7 — the day before Mitsotakis was scheduled to visit Istanbul for the funeral of the Archbishop Dimitrios I [ see this page ] . |
| 22 | Several hours later , a Liverpool University lecturer was mugged by two men as he walked home from the fireworks display in Sefton Park . |
| 23 | A taxi driver was attacked and robbed of £35 by two men as he left his office in Coperative Terrace , Backworth , North Tyneside , early yesterday . |
| 24 | Graham picked up his holdalls and walked away to the cafeteria , where he changed a couple of Swiss francs into loose change then made a call on one of the public telephones , positioning himself in such a way so he could study the two men as he described them to Philpott . |
| 25 | Fred Gilbert , 77 , hit two vehicles as he headed west along the eastbound carriageway of the M4 in Wales , finally crashing near Newport , Gwent . |
| 26 | This combination of fights , action and music proved equally unstoppable ( and profitable ) right through the '70s , Roundtree slugging his way through a TV series and a couple of further movies , stopping , at one point , to gain the vocal assistance of The Four Tops as he blasted a gang of unfortunate slave traders . |
| 27 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 28 | Gavin Hastings ' conversion , allied to his four earlier penalties , pitched Watsonians into a 6-19 advantage into which Selkirk could make no dents by the interval , Jeremy Brett mis-timing two penalties as he sought to build on his initial brace . |
| 29 | Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz , founder and leader of the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , was shot at point-blank range by two gunmen as he left the Catholic University in Santiago , where he had been giving a law lecture , on April 1 . |
| 30 | John Glover , 53 , was jumped by seven men as he opened the front door of his home . |