Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But how does a young American lady — ’ and he stressed the last word slightly ‘ — come to be alone and seeking work in London ? ’ |
| 2 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 3 | And he went the next ones had better be better , right , the next ones were worse |
| 4 | In fact he could n't get them all in , and he acquired a second box , a small tea chest he found , with metal corners . |
| 5 | His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead . |
| 6 | But the noise put Seve on his guard and he played the 17th conservatively , for him . |
| 7 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 8 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 9 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 10 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 11 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 12 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 13 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 14 | But , in his favour , Haig strongly advocated Foch 's appointment as generalissimo in 1918 , and he handled the last British actions of the war with resolution and thoroughness . |
| 15 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 16 | David Rees is Chairman of the Law Committee , and he introduced the first morning session , which dealt with the new rules for Administration Orders in personal insolvency . |
| 17 | Connelly was about to push the door when it was opened from the inside and he found a third man there . |
| 18 | His voice had dropped lower and lower , until he was almost whispering , and he let the last question hang in the silence . |
| 19 | Powell , taking a quick penalty , fed skipper Gander on the burst and he broke the first line of defence to surge clear . |
| 20 | In 1930 he won an open scholarship to read modern history at Trinity College , Cambridge , and he gained a first in part i of the modern history tripos ( 1932 ) , and an aegrotat in part ii ( 1933 ) . |
| 21 | Graham 's back arched agonizingly and he used every last ounce of inner strength to keep himself from wrenching his hand off the pad . |
| 22 | Lyle , starting at the 10th , began badly with a bogey five but he birdied the 15th , 16th , first , sixth and seventh holes . |
| 23 | But he had the last laugh — the Blades dumped Manchester United 2–1 on the opening day ! |
| 24 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 25 | He was elected for Cardiganshire in 1885 , but he opposed the first Irish Home Rule Bill introduced by W. E. Gladstone in June 1886 . |
| 26 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 27 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 28 | But he called the next one , too . |
| 29 | But he warned the next would be bigger and would bear directly on what a Labour government could do . |