Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 2 | In addition to his seven victories this year , Trevino has claimed seven runner-up spots and he duly added an eighth at Dorado . |
| 3 | In the second Test at Port-of-Spain , he duly became the third ‘ W ’ , Weekes and Walcott having already made their debuts , and scored 97 and 28 not out . |
| 4 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 5 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 6 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 7 | He was a scholar at both the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1903–7 ) , and Lincoln College , Oxford ( 1907–11 ) , although he only obtained a second class in modern history ( 1911 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 9 | By incorporating his favorite argument from the tides — incontestably a physical argument — he nevertheless transgressed the second of the two conditions . |
| 10 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 11 | He was unopposed at Bewdley , and in the country as a whole , while losing a hundred seats ( the minimum which could be expected after 1931 ) , he still secured the second biggest majority of the century . |
| 12 | He still remembers the first record he bought — Frank Philips narrating Peter and the Wolf on Ace of Clubs with Britten 's Young Person 's Guide ( LPO/Concertgebouw/van Beinum ) . |
| 13 | Unless the Madeiran is addressing a close friend or member of his family , he always uses the third person in speech . |
| 14 | He does not mind being the butt of his colleagues ' jokes because he always has the last laugh . |
| 15 | Whenever there was a vacancy at his newspaper for a trainee reporter , he loyally gave the first opportunity to someone from the school . |
| 16 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 17 | He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections . |
| 18 | He also birdied the 11th , but then dropped his only shot of the round at the 12th , after playing a poor bunker shot and missing from 15 feet . |
| 19 | He also scored the second of the home side 's tries early in the second period , forcing his way over on the right to put Jed 13-5 ahead and raised the rafters on both grandstands at Riverside . |
| 20 | He also cut the last line of the final song , ‘ Rest till the rosy morn 's uprise ’ , leaving the Fairy Queen herself at the centre of a choral lullaby . |
| 21 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
| 22 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 23 | Certainly Hobhouse can be taken as a representative figure since , in addition to being a leading light of New Liberalism , he also held the first Chair of Sociology to be established in Britain — at the London School of Economics , which was founded by the Webbs . |
| 24 | He also completed the first ( and only one ) of a projected set of six piano sonatas for the King of Prussia 's daughter , and the sublime Clarinet Quintet , K.581 , for his friend Anton Stadler — a fine clarinettist , but a distinctly unreliable character . |
| 25 | He also created the first man , Purusha , from the navel of Vishnu . |
| 26 | The interest on this , is that he also left a second disk . |
| 27 | He also altered the 16th by creating the present men 's tee box from the 1907 16th green ( which had been abandoned in 1914 ) . |
| 28 | No he probably means the twentieth . |
| 29 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he really enjoyed the first few , then the stories and the music got so trite , but he 'd go ahead and do them . |