Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stabbed out two names with his forefinger . |
| 2 | But at night when he sleeps , he drifts back 20 miles . |
| 3 | He got up six books of Euclid and algebra to simple equations … and … learned all the odes of Horace by heart . ’ |
| 4 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 5 | He caught up two laps before the end , Tambay 's brakes failed and Niki was home . |
| 6 | He beat out ten minutes of pain-filled , throbbing rhythm , sometimes accompanied by low , anguished singing , before Doris came stamping and peg up the stairs and banged on his door and told him to stop it at once . |
| 7 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 8 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 9 | He wakes up one morning and though he does n't know it , he must suspect it — the party 's over . |
| 10 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |
| 11 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 12 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 13 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 14 | Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in ! |
| 15 | He woke up five days later in Mansfield General Hospital . |
| 16 | Deciding he did n't want to be the ‘ oldest swinger in town ’ he woke up one morning in 1987 with another hangover and decided he 'd had enough . |
| 17 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 18 | As Eva had known , the location of the flat would always be a draw for Charlie , and when he turned up one evening to eat and sleep I said , ‘ Let's go to the Nashville . ’ |
| 19 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | He fired out two Essex batsmen for 38 in his 10 overs , and snapped up England captain Graham Gooch at mid-wicket off Peter Martin . |
| 21 | He fired out two Essex batsmen for 38 in his 10 overs , and snapped up England captain Graham Gooch at mid-wicket off Peter Martin . |
| 22 | After Bob had closed the door he poured out two tumblers of the wine . |
| 23 | He threw up one arm and gave a great cry as the gun went off . |
| 24 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 25 | He paid out two quid for that as well ! |
| 26 | He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem . |
| 27 | Ralph Brand sent a looping header towards goal , and though the Scotland Under-21 goalkeeper caught it above his head , he stepped back one pace and over the line . |
| 28 | and he said some time ago , he rung up one afternoon |
| 29 | He thrust up two fingers in triumph at the driver , an old man who was as indifferent as a waxwork . |
| 30 | He glanced down one passage to no avail , then tried the next , just soon enough to catch the porter emerging from the third door along . |