Example sentences of "he [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad 'eard 'er an' 'e told 'er that while 'e 'ad two 'ands she was not to borrow money off 'er . |
| 2 | 'E lost two bruvvers in the war too . ’ |
| 3 | Tell him to wait two minutes , that 's all . ’ |
| 4 | A Maryland medical board ordered him to perform 100 hours of service in an Aids clinic . |
| 5 | Next Lilliput asked him to paint three pictures based on London 's river for reproduction in the July 1947 issue of the magazine . |
| 6 | Around him swooped two hoopoes . |
| 7 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 8 | Leading evangelist Jim Smith certainly thinks so , causing him to write three books on how the church can reach out and hold men . |
| 9 | The car three ahead of him moved three yards . |
| 10 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 11 | Simon had once told her how if a Formula One driver blinked during a race it was the same as him driving thirty yards with his eyes shut , and Vitor 's stare was unrelenting . |
| 12 | The Swede 's cheque for £7,110 enabled him to jump 39 places in the Volvo Order of Merit from 157th place to 118th . |
| 13 | The injuring of the finger occurred in November 1898 and is worthy of mention because the man received a 5 guinea gratuity from the Company , whilst the doctor and the solicitor who represented him received 2 guineas and 1 guinea respectively.7 ; |
| 14 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 15 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 16 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 17 | Wirral magistrates made a 12-month probation order and also ordered him to serve 100 hours ' community work . |
| 18 | Then the letter containing the promise declared on is said to specify what the assistance would be , namely , £150 per annum during the uncle 's life , and until the plaintiffs professional income should be acknowledged by him to exceed 600 guineas ; and a further averment , that the plaintiff , relying upon his promise , without any revocation on the part of the uncle , did marry Ellen Nicholl . |
| 19 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 20 | However it might be expecting a lot for him to win four races and it could be that Simon Beck , who starred at the TT , will score his first Irish success . |
| 21 | It is generally stated that Vlasov was awarded the Order of Lenin in February 1941 and the Order of the Red Banner in January 1942 ; however , a photograph of summer 1942 clearly shows him wearing two badges of the latter , as here . |
| 22 | The judge ordered him to do 120 hours community service , saying you wo n't do it again , I hope you can put it all behind you . |
| 23 | He seeks to provide a substantive characterization of the concept of reality which will enable him to do two things : first , to show how certain rules and procedures are logically correct , how employment of them will suffice to guide us towards knowledge of reality ; secondly , to show how it can be rational for a self-controlled agent to seek to contribute to knowledge of reality . |
| 24 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 25 | The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me . |
| 26 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 27 | I let him have two rounds in the top of the head , just to be social . |
| 28 | Brightly coloured coats , shirts and trousers should be tailored to a tight fit ; an elaborately decorated scarf should encircle his waist and hold a dagger : ‘ With a monthly salary of one hundred rupees let him allot ten rupees for the belt and the embroidered badge if he spends fifty rupees on a fur it will not be prodigality . ’ |
| 29 | Dave Holding , the British No 1 , looked capable of repeating his 1989 triumph until Wesley produced a devastating finish on Birdcage Walk which enabled him to slice 70 seconds off the record . |
| 30 | In any event , I ask him to consider four facts : |