Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 2 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 3 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 4 | She helped him lose two stones . |
| 5 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 6 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 7 | So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day . |
| 8 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 9 | The arrest of King had been videotaped by an amateur cameraman , and the resulting footage showed him receiving 56 baton blows and being brutally kicked by police . |
| 10 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 11 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 12 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 13 | Wirral magistrates made a 12-month probation order and also ordered him to serve 100 hours ' community work . |
| 14 | The judge ordered him to do 120 hours community service , saying you wo n't do it again , I hope you can put it all behind you . |
| 15 | A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic . |
| 16 | And it ended up we owed him say ninety quid . |
| 17 | Haynes has tended to be the less adventurous of the two and does not quite have his partner 's determination to hammer the ball into a distant wall , but before the series began he had 5,340 runs at 41 , with twelve centuries , to his name all the same . |
| 18 | But the court heard he passed SIX slip roads where he could have turned off . |
| 19 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 20 | No less important to Reagan 's political future was the other part of his contract with General Electric which required him to spend 16 weeks a year touring GE plants around the country . |
| 21 | She watched him raise one hand to rub the nape of his neck , then flex his shoulder muscles . |
| 22 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 23 | I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week . |
| 24 | The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me . |
| 25 | Next Lilliput asked him to paint three pictures based on London 's river for reproduction in the July 1947 issue of the magazine . |
| 26 | The stranger asked him to promise one thing : ‘ Do n't stay in the job for more than ten years , because you 'll get stale . |
| 27 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 28 | The injuring of the finger occurred in November 1898 and is worthy of mention because the man received a 5 guinea gratuity from the Company , whilst the doctor and the solicitor who represented him received 2 guineas and 1 guinea respectively.7 ; |
| 29 | Such an assessment of Washington 's ability to play well on different surfaces was borne out by his performances last year which saw him reach four semi-finals on four different surfaces . |
| 30 | Greenside experts saw him miss three birdie opportunities , from six , 10 and 15 feet . |