Example sentences of "he [verb] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 3 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 4 | I think he starts on the tenth , I think he starts that that day . |
| 5 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 6 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 7 | He decided on the second option as the wheels touched down . |
| 8 | He died on the 23rd of April , in the year 1616 . |
| 9 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 10 | Supporters of Mr Paul Davies , his chief opponent , believe he won on the second ballot . |
| 11 | He did on the 9th green in the last round . |
| 12 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 13 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 14 | As he stood on the first tee at New Orleans last week , he noticed a boy in a wheelchair . |