Example sentences of "that he [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 2 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 3 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 4 | Dworkin makes it clear that he considers the second principle to be the more fundamental one under a liberal conception of equality . |
| 5 | In the locker room — no ordinary changing room this , but a soft paradise of fluffy towels , hairdryers , lotions , masseurs , electronic scales , isometric drinks , cardio-vascular scans and congratulatory attendants — he told a well-known ( everyone in this club is said to be well-known ) producer that he took the first three games off me in each set . |
| 6 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 7 | That he has managed to carve out such a successful photographic career for himself is extraordinary when you consider that he spent the first 12 years of his working life as a bricklayer . |
| 8 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 9 | Erm briefly , the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two , the one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier on the evening on which he was involved . |
| 10 | Er briefly the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two . |
| 11 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 12 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |
| 13 | Often , however , he is under such pressure to complete the project by a given date that he accepts the first feasible solution he arrives at instead of working systematically towards the optimum . |