Example sentences of "he [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spell of what Parrott described as ‘ the best snooker I 've played this season ’ enabled him to take a 6-2 interval lead which he then increased to 8-2 before Taylor showed his renowned tenacity by winning the next four frames . |
| 2 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 3 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 4 | Spectacular French star Jean-Philippe Ruggia waited until February before he got a 500 GP ride for ‘ 91 . |
| 5 | He got two week ones then he got a four week one . |
| 6 | At odds of 10-1 he bet a hundred pounds he could complete 200 miles in less than nine hours on horseback . |
| 7 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 8 | Oxfordshire youngster Ddavid Harrison had a battle on his hands when he hooked a 24 lb 5 oz pike on his first cast of the day at a local lake . |
| 9 | He caught a six pound bluebottle ! |
| 10 | Ungers plays with conceptions of order that have seemed irrefutable since Galileo and Newton : he created a 1:1 replica of the ceiling of Sophia Ungers ' gallery on the floor — neon strip lights , fixtures , and the capitals of the columns — everything was stood on its head . |
| 11 | Conspicuously active since his election six commons speeches , 60 questions , two surgeries a week he defends a 1,975 majority against the same two major party candidates . |
| 12 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 13 | Notice what it says in verse four , what man among you if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness ? |
| 14 | He has a 1932 Avro 631 Cadet under restoration at North Shore aerodrome , and currently flies a taildragger Cessna 152 instead of the Concordes he used to captain . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , you know what Loulou is , he needs a hundred people . ’ |
| 16 | He needs a fifteen-hundred word article by eight-thirty at the latest . |
| 17 | He starts a four year physiotherapy course at the Ulster University , Jordanstown later this year . |
| 18 | In so doing , he avenged a 16–13 defeat by Parrott at Preston a year ago and prevented the 28-year-old Liverpudlian from knocking Hendry off the top of the world rankings . |
| 19 | He received a six month jail sentence for this , his third conviction … |
| 20 | The SEC used the RICO sanctions as a lever to force Milken to plead guilty to six counts of securities fraud ( for which he received a 10 year prison sentence ) , pay $200m in criminal fines and penalties , and deposit $400m into a fund for injured investors . |
| 21 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |
| 22 | Parrott revelled in his good fortune both on and off the table as he scored a 5–3 victory over Thai-phoon James Wattana . |
| 23 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 24 | He secured a forty kilo sandbag , used as ballast , into the rear seat and was seen to check every part of the machine . |
| 25 | He overturned a 2–5 deficit to go 6–5 in front and served for the match at 8–7 . |
| 26 | He had grown a moustache in order to look like Ian Botham and he drove a 1960s Jag like Inspector Morse . |
| 27 | He shakes a thousand hands . |
| 28 | ‘ At those instances , he threw a hundred percent of effort into his game every time . |
| 29 | In June 1986 he unveiled a five year development programme for the occupied territories , proposing to spend $1,200 million , which depended upon funding from Jordan 's Western friends , particularly the United States and the European Community , and was focused on the development of the rural and commercial sectors , the two areas deemed least supportive of the PLO . |
| 30 | It seems that the Sultan was one of the first victims of non-standardization ; he paid a thousand dollars for a machine for which only one cylinder was ever made ! |