Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 2 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 3 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 4 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
| 5 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 6 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 7 | These ethico-political concerns formed the basis of his early works on madness : as he announced in his first book , Mental Illness and Psychology ( 1954 ) : |
| 8 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 9 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 10 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 11 | There was an ‘ Oof ! ’ of expelled air as the man fell to his knees , his broad shoulders heaving as he strained for his next breath . |
| 12 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 13 | Also I know that my coach at North Harbour , Peter Thorburn , was very impressed with Ian when he played for us last summer . |
| 14 | Initially , he experimented with his second and third year lower sets , basing his syllabus on the Cockcroft Foundation list ( DES , 1982 ) and using games and other activities to try to make lessons more enjoyable . |
| 15 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 16 | In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond , and at the invitation of Parker . |
| 17 | Archie usually performed as a combative left-half for the Palace , but he was also occasionally drafted into the front line , to play as a makeshift centre-forward to most useful effect , because his considerable height gave him a distinct advantage in that department and he scored on his first two outings for us in the number nine shirt . |
| 18 | ENGLAND midfielder Paul Gascoigne 's return to form continued yesterday as he scored in his second successive game for Lazio . |
| 19 | When ambitions to become an opera singer and then a sports writer failed , he turned to his third interest — car racing . |
| 20 | ‘ America has a lot of assets , ’ he claimed in his last speech to congress , ‘ we should cash in on them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Onward , Christian soldiers ! ’ boomed my father , as he hammered in his first piton . |
| 22 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 24 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 25 | But note that Ratner differs from other exploiters of the Thatcher Years in that he stuck to his last . |
| 26 | Andre Agassi 's stay in Key Biscayne was depressingly short as he lost in his first match to one of what seemed countless unheralded other Americans , Bryan Shelton . |
| 27 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 28 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 29 | I felt slightly uneasy with the direction he took in his last book , Under Siege , in which Coonts ' hero Jake Grafton forsook the jet fuel , grease and steam-slick decks of nuclear carriers for the even more treacherous corridors of the Pentagon , and The Cannibal Queen has n't reassured me that he 's back on track . |
| 30 | He thought about it last week but it 's pretty hush hush I think . |