Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 So he sold them for four X.
2 He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral .
3 His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them .
4 He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix .
5 He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up .
6 Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents .
7 has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one .
8 he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah
9 He got it in nine seconds .
10 five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes
11 Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite .
12 He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him .
13 He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs .
14 He invited her into one of his lesser parlours .
15 He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner .
16 ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves .
17 He let himself into one of the houses through the skylight and waited , hardly daring to breath , to see if he had been detected .
18 He let me into one of his secrets when he told me that he tries to avoid cream sauces and prefers to use stock and wine reductions .
19 He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich .
20 He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting .
21 She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’
22 He overtook me after three tantrum-filled games ( mine , not his ) .
23 He punished himself through two bouts of his heaviest exercises , until his upper arms ached , his stomach muscles felt cramped , his legs watered , head dizzy .
24 But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away .
25 He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties .
26 He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure .
27 He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’
28 He displaced himself by two miles south .
29 My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one .
30 He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone .
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