Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia . |
| 2 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 3 | As already stated , he receives the first referrals . |
| 4 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |
| 5 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 6 | The trial proved an immense strain , and he spent the last months of his life confined to a wheelchair . |
| 7 | JB , who lives with his publican owners , always makes a bee-line for the regulars as soon as he hears the last orders bell . |
| 8 | He started the first Hearts ' supporters club in nineteen forty six . |
| 9 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 10 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 11 | And he went the next ones had better be better , right , the next ones were worse |
| 12 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 13 | He felt the first dabs of rain , and held out his palm to inspect the circles of water as though they might be gold or a map of the city . |
| 14 | In the dirty little office , he felt the first stirrings of excitement . |
| 15 | He spoke the last words grimly . |
| 16 | He was looking , without seeming to look , at Andropulos as he said the last words and felt almost certain that he saw a flicker of expression cross his face . |
| 17 | He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher — a gospel , an incantation — as an epigraph on all his own books . |