Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He tried to put one hand out to stop himself , but the gun was still in his grip . |
| 5 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 9 | He 's on probation for three years and he has to do 100 hours community service . |
| 10 | ‘ Remember his train does n't come in till six o'clock , and then he has to ride ten miles on our old horse . ’ |
| 11 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 12 | He seemed to have three expressions only — sardonic , disdainful and furious . |
| 13 | Robert Dakers , 44 , had not counted on the Home Office cancelling his parole licence for previous offences when he returned to face three charges of handling stolen goods . |
| 14 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 15 | He threatened to shoot one victim , raped her — and moments later told her he was going to start loving her and wanted her to meet him again . |
| 16 | He needed to have two goes at it and in the end made a good five . |
| 17 | But instead he told whomsoever it might concern that he was Alan Bleath , a researcher employed by the above company and he needed to buy 10 grams of thallium for research purposes . |
| 18 | The worst expensive flop Peter Barnes , Allan Clarke says he needed to buy eight players and was only allowed four , one of which cost a lot , well Allan , you bought the WRONG ONE ! 30,000 |
| 19 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 20 | Why he decided to drop three divisions and stay with the club until his first dismissal in 1987 , remains shrouded in slipped fivers . |
| 21 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 22 | Having crossed the enemy 's lines , he proceeded to chase two Germans into a nearby forest . |
| 23 | So , apart from building tennis and squash courts , he managed to fit five holes of golf into a part of the school grounds and encouraged the boys to have a go . |
| 24 | He managed to get one hand on the leash , pulling with all his strength , his other locked in Gomez 's shirt . |
| 25 | His shoulder hit the floor with a thud that knocked the wind out of him but he managed to get one hand under the vase at full stretch and slithered across the marble floor juggling the smooth-glazed porcelain above his head . |
| 26 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 27 | At university , he had to do five subjects . |
| 28 | The wakeman was elected annually from ‘ his bretheren ’ and if he ‘ flytted from the towne except that God do visit it with pestilence ’ he had to forfeit twenty pounds . |
| 29 | Strange he had to father two sluts of women . |
| 30 | He had to spend fifteen hours a week on a dialysis machine . |