Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] he [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Bede , Wulfhere reigned seventeen years ( HE 111 , 24 ) , which led him to 675 for Wulfhere 's death , reckoning forward from 658 , but if Wulfhere did not become king until 659 a seventeen-year reign would suggest 676 for his death . |
| 2 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 3 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 4 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 5 | Its success led at once to his appointment as editor of the fifth edition of Grove 's Dictionary of Music and Musicians , a task which occupied him until 1954 . |
| 6 | There was a quiet wistfulness about her , a reticence , a grace which reminded him of one of Leonardo 's Madonnas . |
| 7 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 8 | The first is the world economic situation , which hits him in two ways . |
| 9 | In his key work on this subject ( 1977 ) , Bourdieu begins with a critical account of that anthropological structuralism which provides him with one of his main methodological tools . |