Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 3 | As regards the real estate of the deceased , it is settled by the end of the thirteenth century that he can make no will , except where there is a local custom to that effect . |
| 4 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 5 | One child is particularly proud of his work : it contains many letters , large and boldly formed , and this was the first occasion that he had written anything since arriving in the school . |
| 6 | The trial judge , however , directed the jury that there was no evidence available against the first appellant that he was acting in concert , and that the only evidence that there was a concerted attack came , if the jury accepted it , from statements made by the second appellant outwith the presence of the first appellant . |
| 7 | JOHANNESBURG ( Reuter ) — President FW de Klerk said yesterday that he would meet anti-apartheid churchmen — including Archbishop Desmond Tutu — next Wednesday , the first sign that he will live up to election promises of entering into talks with recognised black leaders . |
| 8 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 9 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 10 | Two lynx , sleek and amber in the first enclosure that he passed , were disregarding the tourists and staring possessively at the peafowl across the way . |
| 11 | The first forest that he imposed upon the world is the world in which I live and through which you are journeying . |
| 12 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 13 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 14 | Fawcett says that he had noticed scraps of similar material in earlier test runs on the apparatus , but this was the first time that he drew it to Gibson 's attention . |
| 15 | But this was the first time that he showed an interest . |
| 16 | It will be the first time that he and the Princess of Wales have attended together as the principal guests . |
| 17 | It was the first time that he had been handcuffed . |
| 18 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 19 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 20 | And now , as he entered Lady Ursula Berowne 's sitting room , Dalgliesh felt for the first time that he was in a private house , that this was a room which the owner had made peculiarly her own . |
| 21 | There were questions he still needed to ask and it would n't be the first time that he had taken advantage of tiredness or grief . |
| 22 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 23 | ‘ It was the first time that he realized there were officers and that they treat you badly because you 're not like them . |
| 24 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 25 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 26 | Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability . |
| 27 | It was the first time that he had spoken . |
| 28 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 29 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 30 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |