Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 2 | This point comes out most explicitly in Le Roy Ladurie 's work on Languedoc , where the explanations he offers have two kinds of appeal . |
| 3 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 4 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |
| 5 | He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model . |
| 6 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
| 7 | He tried to put one hand out to stop himself , but the gun was still in his grip . |
| 8 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 9 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 10 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 11 | So far he has visited 98 countries and covered over 280,000 km from pole to pole , through Africa and the Americas . |
| 12 | In the draft he has hidden thirty-five roubles inside a slit in his frock-coat pocket . |
| 13 | In his 42 Tests he has landed 588 points . |
| 14 | He has gained twenty-four hours ! ’ |
| 15 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 16 | Little Polveir does not get warmed up until he has gone three miles and Toby Balding has been training him specifically with Saturday in mind . |
| 17 | He has developed five categories for classifying non-availability of individual titles : 1 ) title not acquired , 2 ) catalogue error , 3 ) title in circulation , 4 ) library error ( title missing or misplaced on shelves ) , and 5 ) user error in searching . |
| 18 | He has selected ten artists to illustrate his thesis in which he ponders whether art might have replaced religion as a vehicle for modern spiritual thought . |
| 19 | He has played 10 times for Wales . |
| 20 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 21 | The Prince 's racing manager , Grant Pritchard-Gordon , said : ‘ He has run three times on soft and each run has proved conclusively that he does n't like it . ’ |
| 22 | A HIGH COURT judge today ordered that the Marquess of Blandford be freed from jail , where he has served three days of a 112-day sentence for maintenance arrears . |
| 23 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 24 | In 10 games he has scored 136 points , the most in the land by some way . |
| 25 | He has been consistent in all his 33 appearances in which he has scored six goals . ’ |
| 26 | He has scored 22 League and Cup goals this season , the last against Blackburn in midweek . |
| 27 | He has scored 12 goals so far this season . |
| 28 | Hirst was left out of the party for Turkey yesterday , though he has scored seven goals in nine games this season . |
| 29 | But he has travelled 5000 miles to Edinburgh for expert help and is now all set to take his first faltering steps at the age of five . |
| 30 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |