Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 2 | He realised the two men would not fight . |
| 3 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 4 | He stuffed the two pieces into Vasili 's anorak pocket . |
| 5 | He attacked the 1986 Insolvency Act for its penalising and punitive consequences on the owners and directors of small companies , often resulting in personal bankruptcy . |
| 6 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 7 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 8 | He fought the 1987 election campaign . |
| 9 | Spectacular French star Jean-Philippe Ruggia waited until February before he got a 500 GP ride for ‘ 91 . |
| 10 | He got two week ones then he got a four week one . |
| 11 | The following July , 1880 , he got the fifty francs from Theo and made reluctant contact again . |
| 12 | At odds of 10-1 he bet a hundred pounds he could complete 200 miles in less than nine hours on horseback . |
| 13 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 14 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 15 | Next he read the two Scrolls and then presented the Environmental insignia to Mr Titcombe and the Export insignia to Dr Evans . |
| 16 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 17 | Oxfordshire youngster Ddavid Harrison had a battle on his hands when he hooked a 24 lb 5 oz pike on his first cast of the day at a local lake . |
| 18 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 19 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 20 | As he spoke , he moved the two benches outwards , so she was in the position he had described : her body bound to the table , her legs spread wide on the two benches like an inverted Y. In spite of the darkness , she knew that her quim was now utterly exposed and helpless before him . |
| 21 | He caught a six pound bluebottle ! |
| 22 | Ungers plays with conceptions of order that have seemed irrefutable since Galileo and Newton : he created a 1:1 replica of the ceiling of Sophia Ungers ' gallery on the floor — neon strip lights , fixtures , and the capitals of the columns — everything was stood on its head . |
| 23 | He created the 112 vice-counties into which the whole of Britain was divided , and of which the Outer Hebrides became V.C. 110 . |
| 24 | Special Rapporteur Riphagen expounded what he termed the three parameters of relationship in international law which are set up by an internationally wrongful act . |
| 25 | He approached the three horses and , dancing first on one foot and then on the other , ran like a deer , leapt over the three horses , over the flaming swords , and alighted on the saddle of his own horse , the great Koulash . |
| 26 | He beat the 1987 stock market crash by selling out of his major holdings at the peak , returning briefly for an unsuccessful bid for the giant BAT . |
| 27 | In so doing , he avenged a 16–13 defeat by Parrott at Preston a year ago and prevented the 28-year-old Liverpudlian from knocking Hendry off the top of the world rankings . |
| 28 | He entered the 1990s gambling on the long term success of his satellite TV channel , Sky , and his plans to build a fourth US national TV network . |
| 29 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 30 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |