Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [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 got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model . |
| 5 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
| 6 | He tried to put one hand out to stop himself , but the gun was still in his grip . |
| 7 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 'd lived fifty years too long . |
| 11 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 13 | He looked as though he 'd lost twenty years , as though a ten-ton weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 14 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 15 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 16 | After the disappointment of Paris , when everyone kept reminding him how he 'd missed five kicks out of six in the Parc des Princes , there was bound to be a reaction from Hastings at Murrayfield . |
| 17 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
| 18 | The inquest into his death found he 'd taken nine times the usual dose of LSD … but recorded an open verdict . |
| 19 | Last May just days before his finals he telephoned his mother in Singapore to say he 'd taken 200 pills . |
| 20 | He 'd taken one look at her ashen face , and steered her out of the swirling throngs of people without needing to be asked . |
| 21 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 22 | He 'd driven eight hours that day , but he was feeling good . |
| 23 | and he 'd spent fifty quid in Sainsburys . |
| 24 | He 'd spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial and served 6 months of a 10 year sentence . |
| 25 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 27 | One of the burglars called at the house in Calverton Road , telling the pensioner he 'd won ten pounds . |
| 28 | He 'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham . |
| 29 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 30 | Gentle began to follow , but the fall had left him aching in every joint , and he knew the chase was lost before he 'd hobbled three yards . |