Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He may want one kind of person . |
2 | Therefore I suggest to him that he should give an undertaking to do two things er first that he should do two things . |
3 | Yet should there be any misconceptions of Jesus 's seriousness on this matter , when asked by Peter if he should forgive seven times ( perhaps interpreting Jesus as putting a limit on forgiveness ) Jesus replies , ‘ I tell you not seven times but seventy-seven times ’ ( Matt. 18:22 ) . |
4 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
5 | It is , nevertheless , pretty easy for a solicitor to transfer to the Bar : the most onerous requirement is that he must spend six months in pupillage . |
6 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
7 | He must tie one end of the string to the opening of the cave and then let the ball unwind as he went down into the labyrinth . |
8 | ‘ If he said to me , he 'll stay 12 months , he 'll stay 12 months . |
9 | ‘ If he said to me , he 'll stay 12 months , he 'll stay 12 months . |
10 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
11 | Yeah but if we can get him onto the computer system he 'll do two days a week if he can do it |
12 | He 's been taken to Pentonville Prison where he 'll serve four months . |
13 | ‘ Dunbar 's coming over and he 'll have fifty fits if he sees you holding Harry 's hand . |
14 | ‘ He 'll spook at anything , ’ says his rider John Whitaker , ‘ and the trouble is he does n't just look at the thing , he 'll jump six feet in the air and then do the splits when he comes down again . |
15 | It 's difficult to know who 's the bigger dreamer , Franco Sbarro or Willy Koenig , who is convinced he 'll find 30 buyers for his 236mph , £700,000 C62 Porsche-engined , Porsche 926 race-car clone . |
16 | He 'll put one foot down , it stays on the surface for a second , he transfers his weight and sinks up to his body . |
17 | He might last ten years … might last ten months or days . ’ |
18 | He might take three weeks off after a really hard fight , otherwise he 's back in the gym after three days . ’ |
19 | His chair was pulled close to the stove so that he could prop one elbow against the chimney as he studied the pages of his newspaper . |
20 | The right of subscribers to recommend patients was determined strictly in accordance with the amount of their subscriptions ; for example , no subscriber of less than 2 guineas annually could recommend an in-patient , but he could send one out-patient within the year . |
21 | In this way he could form three detachments , controlled through a slightly expanded headquarters staff . |
22 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |
23 | ‘ Dez ’ , a local young man in business on his own as ‘ Dez 's Car Valeting Service ’ , threw down a challenge that he could wash 40 cars in eight hours . |
24 | He was a hard worker , and you had to set these pens every time for the sheep you see , well he could carry three hurdles on his back , and I could , five , that 's right five , and I could carry three , he carried five . |
25 | He could row one way one minute and if he found you agreeing with him , he would take the opposite argument on principle . ’ |
26 | He could do one poem with sixty verses without pause , and Sir Emmanuel would listen and marvel at his ability . |
27 | The Boro boss said Peter Schmeichel also had a good game and he could sense 15 minutes from time that neither goalkeeper was going to make a mistake . |
28 | But his comments sparked an angry response from Torquay chairman Mike Bateson , who said afterwards : ‘ His ( Kelly 's ) remarks that he could watch four games a week and see 200 such tackles was the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard . |
29 | He could dodge two coppers in a car easily . |
30 | The largest area , a hall in which Tiller claimed he could train 200 pupils at any one time , was dominated by three enormous mirrors that would show the girls their mistakes . |