Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 2 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 3 | the bell to get the bus to stop and he goes to the next flaming stop ! |
| 4 | so er I 've got to keep him off school today and see how he goes over the next day or two . |
| 5 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're gon na play some DEVIL SATAN WOCK AND WOLL MUSIC ! ! ! ’ announces Fabulous ' strangely Mr Bean-like guitarist to the severe bemusement of a hall full of Farm fans , as he launches into the first of two bloody many dismal three-chord punk thrashes , and on struts Simon Dudfield , oozing ugliness from every pore . |
| 7 | ‘ He lives on the sixteenth floor of the RCA building . |
| 8 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 9 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 10 | ‘ Here 's fifty , ’ he shouts at the next table . |
| 11 | I think he starts on the tenth , I think he starts that that day . |
| 12 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 13 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 14 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 15 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 16 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 17 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 18 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 19 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 20 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Furthermore he has a particular site in mind , as he reveals in the next round of the negotiations . |
| 22 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 23 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 24 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 25 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 26 | It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity . |
| 27 | He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two . |
| 28 | The officer at Leicester 's not available at the moment , so he hopes by the next meeting erm if Leeds have an opportunity to see that letter , and perhaps have a short report on what this council does with respect to Nestle/1 and also what other councils have done . |
| 29 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
| 30 | Once Turrican has fought his way past two end-of-level guardians , he moves onto the next section . |