Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 32 | He passed through a second archway . |
| 33 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 34 | the bell to get the bus to stop and he goes to the next flaming stop ! |
| 35 | so er I 've got to keep him off school today and see how he goes over the next day or two . |
| 36 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 37 | He sits in a Second Empire armchair , a curling pipe in one side of his mouth , the other side opening and closing every few moments , like a fish breaking the surface , to let the smoke out , and listen expressionlessly while Howard explains his ideas for the script . |
| 38 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 39 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 40 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 41 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 42 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 43 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 44 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 45 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 46 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 47 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 48 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 49 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 50 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 51 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 52 | What he got in the first |
| 53 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 54 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 55 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
| 56 | ‘ We 're gon na play some DEVIL SATAN WOCK AND WOLL MUSIC ! ! ! ’ announces Fabulous ' strangely Mr Bean-like guitarist to the severe bemusement of a hall full of Farm fans , as he launches into the first of two bloody many dismal three-chord punk thrashes , and on struts Simon Dudfield , oozing ugliness from every pore . |
| 57 | How much did he earn in the fourth week ? |
| 58 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 59 | He headed for the Seventh Day Adventist College , New Bold in Berkshire . |
| 60 | Bull exploited hesitancy in the Polish defence when he headed in the second goal in the 36th minute , again from a Smith cross , after good work by David Batty . |