Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had two substantial houses ( in London he lived at 27 Queen 's Gate until 1913 , when he bought 93 Eaton Square , a still larger house with — an uncharacteristic touch for Baldwin — a more fashionable address ) and plenty of money with which to run them and do anything else he wanted . |
| 2 | Lynagh missed half-a-dozen kicks at goal but he succeeded with one conversion and five penalties . |
| 3 | He plunged past one plane and caught a blurred glimpse of another , wheeling towards him . |
| 4 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 5 | But er , he he hopped on one day and er had a talk with him and so on and took my temperature and pulse and that , this , that and other , he said well I 'll call again he said , when I 'm by , but he never did ! |
| 6 | I put this theory to Walter Avrili , mortgage expert with John Charcol and he agreed with one proviso . |
| 7 | She was sitting turned in against his chest , and he rode with one arm around her , supporting her . |
| 8 | When he applied to one college for a teaching job he was told bluntly they would have nothing to do with blind people . |
| 9 | He said , Let's get in here and we got in , he got into one bunk at one side and I got in to t other . |
| 10 | He got to one knee but had to stay down until the count reached nine . |
| 11 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 12 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |
| 13 | This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's . |
| 14 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |
| 15 | Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air . |
| 16 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 17 | His trouser legs were scorching from the fire and he twisted to one side . |
| 18 | There was once years and years ago , he came in one night and I gave him these three pieces of paper and er what was it ? |
| 19 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 20 | He came in one day and asked what M C C stood for , and I 've always known a lot of useless information , so I could tell him , so I was then dispatched everyday to the erm radio shop in the High Street , to get the cricket scores in Australia . |
| 21 | does , , he came in one day and I said that we really do n't travel a lot you know |
| 22 | He came in one afternoon and started painting black and white stripes round the fuselage and wings , when asked the reason for this he said it was a new allied marking . |
| 23 | He dropped to one knee and stayed there . |
| 24 | Beside the grille he dropped to one knee and fired three quick shots into the air . |
| 25 | Sarah said sarcastically , but he dropped on one knee and put his hand on his heart . |
| 26 | He gestured towards one corner of the moulded seat . |
| 27 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 28 | NIKI LAUDA HAS named the latest LaudaAir aircraft after the man whose cars he drove to two world championship titles in 1975 and 1977 . |
| 29 | Sally sat close to Edward on the bench seat and he drove with one arm around her , somehow managing to change gear with his right hand . |
| 30 | In the jeep , he drove with one hand , putting the other over hers on her knee . |