Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | News of the men 's golf included Mr. H. le Fleming Shepherd 's efforts in the Amateur Championship at St Andrew 's where he reached the 3rd round . |
| 2 | Of these the most conservative was Porta , who as late as 1578 could publish an old-fashioned cantus firmus Mass on the Josquin subject ‘ La sol fa re mi ’ and who corresponded with Carlo Borromeo ; on the other hand , his Magnificat for the Franciscan Chapter at Bologna was in 24 parts and we know that he frequently employed trombones , cornetts , violins , and portative organs as well as the large ones at San Antonio , Padua , where he spent the last six years of his life . |
| 3 | In 1734 he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne , eventually moving to Oxford in 1752 , where he died the next year . |
| 4 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 5 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 6 | Housman , would lecture on the lyrical poetry of Horace , expounding each text in uncompromising earnest until he reached the seventh ode of the fourth book , " Diffugere nives " . |
| 7 | He knew if he birdied the last he 'd break it . |
| 8 | If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week . |
| 9 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 10 | Quinn can give the bookmakers a caning today if he scores the first goal of the game . |
| 11 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 12 | He spoke without conviction , as if he believed the last phrase was something he was obliged to say rather than genuinely believed . |
| 13 | He knows that if he fails the first time , he 'll win the second time , if not the third time . |
| 14 | He lowered his head because he remembered the fourth person all right , but he did n't want to tell Ezzie about it . |
| 15 | Minutes passed till he heard the last racing footsteps fade away , then he cautiously eased the door open and looked round its edge . |
| 16 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 17 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 18 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |
| 19 | But since he knew the first three elements of this expression before he observed his local price , it follows that the observation of his local price amounts to an observation of . |
| 20 | Since he survived the last great property collapse of the Seventies this should provide some comfort to holders of shares in property companies . |
| 21 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 22 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 23 | The world No3 launched his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 24 | World No3 White won 5-4 , launching his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 25 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 26 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 27 | Sometimes , before he drank the fourth or fifth glass of Côtes-du-Rhone that would incapacitate him , he thought with guilt of the Flanders fields , with impotence of the forests where wolves ranged , — with the sense of temptation , secret delight , and energy welling up from unknown sources of Gauguin 's cold bluster , of Vincent 's two voices . |
| 28 | The CEGB know it , the local authority know it , we know it , you know it , and the inspector appointed to carry out the inevitable inquiry will know it before he hears the first evidence . |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman should get out of the habit of writing his supplementary questions before he hears the first answer . |
| 30 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |