Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 2 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 3 | Anderson , twice winner of the North of Ireland , and once the South , was hurt when he failed to make the 1989 team which won at Peach Tree . |
| 4 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 5 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 6 | They stood watching him as he tried to manoeuvre the five foot cabinet through on to the landing with them . |
| 7 | He 'd won the 1979 Open and I knew what kind of player he was so I was pretty thrilled about being asked . |
| 8 | I give him two barm cakes and we had one each and before we 'd finished , started our second half of our one , he 'd ate the two , give him a custard and he 'd ate it |
| 9 | It was funny , actually it was on that one , I think he was a little bit erm sexually-orientated more than average this gentleman , cos he 'd got the four poster bed . |
| 10 | He seemed to view the nineteen nineties as some kind of Golden Age , and Cassie was reluctant to shake his faith in the future . |
| 11 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 12 | In it he envisaged linking the two seas to generate electricity , based on the proposals of the engineer Max Bourcart , who wanted the canal to run from Haifa Bay , through the Bet Shean Valley , and then down the Jordan Valley . |
| 13 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 14 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 15 | In search of clues he began to study the one area where species can actually be seen to change , the production of new varieties of pigeons , dogs , etc. , through the activity of human breeders . |
| 16 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 17 | Maggie clipped his ear , making him yell , but undeterred he began to torment the two younger boys who had crouched quietly in a corner , watching . |
| 18 | Scowling with concentration he began to load the six chambers of his Colt Patent Repeating Pistol with the lead which dragged down one pocket of his scarecrow 's morning coat . |
| 19 | Heading north from Los Angeles , through Santa Barbara , the towns of Pismo Beach , Morro Bay , Carpinteria and Guadalupe — where architects are in the process of unearthing the replica pyramids buried by film director Cecil B. De Mille after he finished making The Ten Commandments on the beach — all offer pretty and uncrowded beaches and interesting restaurants and bars . |
| 20 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 21 | That was when he decided to put the two of us together , to share the presentation . |
| 22 | And er when he went to get the seven o'clock bus it drove past him . |
| 23 | He said a bargain was a bargain ; he had found the treasure , he had risked the Caliph 's wrath , and he had killed the three assassins . |
| 24 | He had lost the one person who believed in him , the one person whom he could trust with his innermost thoughts . |
| 25 | he had lost the two centre top teeth , and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose . |
| 26 | That he had seen the two talking ? |
| 27 | He was a big , shambling , shy man , more than a little soured by life , but he had taken the two boys under his wing and Preston had loved him . |
| 28 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 29 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 30 | Even more amazing , he is alleged to have told confidants before he died last month that , far from being the spoils of two decades of looting the Treasury , he had found the 400 tons of bullion just after the war in a northern province of the Philippines . |