Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 2 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 3 | He pounced in the 30th minute , rifling home a super shot from 20 yards in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 4 | Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage |
| 5 | He lived in the last tomb , a bare chamber with a mat , a kettle , a kerosene stove and a radio which did n't work . |
| 6 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 7 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 8 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 9 | He had the reputation for being clever but lacking in tact or discretion , and held only a minor post in Grey 's Government of 1853 to 1855 , and although he remained an MP until 1883 , when he succeeded as the tenth Earl of Wemyss and March , he never held office again . |
| 10 | ‘ Well now , and just in time for tea , ’ he beamed as a second and third bomb fell sickeningly nearer . |
| 11 | And Craig Stuart , 36 , died when he plunged from a 12th floor hotel room in London . |
| 12 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 13 | He passed through a second archway . |
| 14 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 15 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 16 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 17 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 18 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 19 | The crew of the boat on which he was travelling attacked and were about to kill him when he asked for a last favour — to play a tune . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , you 're sure you feel well enough to make a statement ? ’ he asked for the second or third time . |
| 21 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 22 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 23 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 24 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 25 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 26 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 27 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 28 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 29 | What he got in the first |
| 30 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |