Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised the two men would not fight . |
| 2 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 3 | He stuffed the two pieces into Vasili 's anorak pocket . |
| 4 | He attacked the 1986 Insolvency Act for its penalising and punitive consequences on the owners and directors of small companies , often resulting in personal bankruptcy . |
| 5 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 6 | He fought the 1987 election campaign . |
| 7 | The following July , 1880 , he got the fifty francs from Theo and made reluctant contact again . |
| 8 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 9 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 10 | Next he read the two Scrolls and then presented the Environmental insignia to Mr Titcombe and the Export insignia to Dr Evans . |
| 11 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 12 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 13 | As he spoke , he moved the two benches outwards , so she was in the position he had described : her body bound to the table , her legs spread wide on the two benches like an inverted Y. In spite of the darkness , she knew that her quim was now utterly exposed and helpless before him . |
| 14 | He created the 112 vice-counties into which the whole of Britain was divided , and of which the Outer Hebrides became V.C. 110 . |
| 15 | Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act . |
| 16 | He approached the three horses and , dancing first on one foot and then on the other , ran like a deer , leapt over the three horses , over the flaming swords , and alighted on the saddle of his own horse , the great Koulash . |
| 17 | He beat the 1987 stock market crash by selling out of his major holdings at the peak , returning briefly for an unsuccessful bid for the giant BAT . |
| 18 | He entered the 1990s gambling on the long term success of his satellite TV channel , Sky , and his plans to build a fourth US national TV network . |
| 19 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 20 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 21 | Using Welsh lamb he created an eye-catching display in a domed circular cabinet for which he received the Three Countries Gold Medal and a cheque for £500 . |
| 22 | ‘ Go back , ’ he told the two grooms . |
| 23 | He told the 114 delegates assembled at the resort 's Savoy Hotel how the environmental group had regarded BNFL when he took office in 1986 : ‘ You remember , they re-named April the first , my first day in office , British Nuclear Fools Day . |
| 24 | He undid the three locks and swung back the lid . |
| 25 | He mounted the five steps to the front door and rang the bell . |
| 26 | Ambling into the nets , he had barely taken guard when he suffered the one embarrassment all England batsmen fear on overseas tours . |
| 27 | He surveyed the two women , who were oblivious of his presence as they tore verbally at each other . |
| 28 | They could hear his footsteps across the gangplank , then a heavier one as he dropped the eighteen inch gap on to Grace 's deck . |
| 29 | For a moment he studied the two women , comparing them . |
| 30 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |