Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day .
3 The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined .
4 Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath .
5 Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood .
6 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 .
7 But the court heard he passed SIX slip roads where he could have turned off .
8 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
9 I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week .
10 Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse .
11 Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’
12 He checked his watch and knew he had three hours to wait .
13 Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint .
14 A clue to his role may be found in the fact that only seven times did he take five wickets in an innings and never once ten in a match .
15 Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived .
16 As he ran he saw two dots appear on the lip of the entrance .
17 last year 's individual with us he had I think he had he had five A levels of which four were grade A and one was greed B grade B.
18 Dotty was thirty-nine , but had he added twenty years onto her age he knew it would n't have deterred Harbour .
19 He said that they had never forgotten her ; nor had he forgot ten Slavko , with whom he used to play .
20 Why had he allowed two days to go by ?
21 How had he got two jobs ?
22 And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How .
23 Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen .
24 He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son .
25 The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said he had one weapon with which to beat inflation : the interest rate .
26 Shepherd , 34 , from Wakefield , West Yorks , said he had three pints of beer before taking Flash on her walk .
27 A home Office pathologist said he noted seventeen injuries to Hannah ; s head .
28 An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 .
29 Mr Hannis said he took two people in for ten weeks .
30 ‘ But the staff there said he disappeared two days later .
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