Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 2 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 3 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 4 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside the other greats . |
| 5 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 6 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 7 | He became only the seventh Briton to wear the champion 's laurels . |
| 8 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 9 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 10 | The next day he drew out the last of his savings from the bank and left for Cornwall . |
| 11 | Mr Taylor , of Grantham , said Liam had gradually improved , and his voice choked with emotion as he described how the next afternoon his son had opened his eyes and reached for his teddy bear . |
| 12 | Because that , he did mention that he says so the next thing is the home 'll have to go . |
| 13 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 14 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 15 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 16 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 17 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 18 | As he turned away the second of his pursuers appeared on the pavement in front of him , drawing its hand from his pocket . |
| 19 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 20 | When I told Malc , he turned up the next night with a gift-wrapped teddy for the baby . |
| 21 | He turned down the first street he came to , turned left , right , left again , he walked down a hill , along an alley , through a deserted square , but still he could n't find one anywhere . |
| 22 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 23 | He had erm what did he have there the last time ? |
| 24 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 25 | He took out the last reed — looked at it — was going to split it , but his horse reached back and snatched the reed from him . |
| 26 | He brought out the first published Ordnance Survey map , An Entirely New & Accurate Survey of the County of Kent ( 1801 ) . |
| 27 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 28 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 29 | As he strode down the 18th in the morning alongside Parry , the pair looking like the leaders of the Lilliput Open , he appeared every inch of his 64 ( to Parry 's 66 ) a champion . |
| 30 | He did better the next year in the title role of Dr Knock , acting ‘ with ease and obvious personal enjoyment ’ . |