Example sentences of "he [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his success has been recognised by the Football League , which has chosen him to manage a Second Division Select 11 to play an equivalent team from the Italian League — at Caserta on the 4th of March . |
| 2 | It was a desperate plan , with little hope of success , but Caledor and many like him thought a last desperate gamble would be preferable to the slow death the Elf people were enduring . |
| 3 | In fact it was she who had advised him to get a second opinion on the matter , from a lawyer . |
| 4 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 5 | He made a last effort to persuade the Sunderland Society to adopt the rules of a national union which he had spent some twelve months in preparing . |
| 6 | He made a last desperate attempt to sway them back to him . |
| 7 | Culley thought that too , but he made a last try . |
| 8 | His first aid completed , he made a last check around to make sure he was still alone and unobserved then moved off , heading deeper into the forest away from the highway . |
| 9 | Just before he went under , he made a last effort . |
| 10 | LAWNSWOOD Junior confirmed his liking for Edinburgh when he registered a fifth course success in yesterday 's Levy Board Handicap . |
| 11 | A year later , he produced a second album , Fans , which did for — or unto — opera what Duck Rock had done for ethnic music . |
| 12 | He fought a last furious fight and finally gave in . |
| 13 | he became a second permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment during Edward Heath 's administration . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you understand me ? ’ he asked a second time . |
| 15 | Would he make a second creature ? |
| 16 | He read English , wrote Sitwellian verse for the student magazine The Gong , and I believe he got a first . |
| 17 | He got a First at the end of his first year , a Second at the end of his second , and a Third at the end of his third . |
| 18 | If he does make another comeback though , it would not be surprising if he wins a fourth title because , if he can get back behind a wheel six weeks after being so close to death , there is no knowing what the courageous Austrian can do . |
| 19 | Connelly was about to push the door when it was opened from the inside and he found a third man there . |
| 20 | On third Reading , he moved a second amendment to make racially discriminatory behaviour by the police a specific disciplinary offence . |
| 21 | He caught a last glimpse of a grey Mercedes on the far side of the central barrier railings . |
| 22 | He has no chance of facing the tourists after suffering his fourth shoulder dislocation in Llanelli 's narrow home win over Neath and has been warned by doctors that unless he has a second operation he may never play again . |
| 23 | He has a second son , Sebastian , nine , who telephoned during the day to be told his father and Koti 's surprise good news . |
| 24 | ‘ Like me , he has a first class assistant boss in Colin McCurdy . |
| 25 | He has a sixth sense to recognise the genuine from the phoney . |
| 26 | Despite the record unpopularity of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , the 2,500 delegates gave him a warm reception as he promised a third consecutive PCP victory in the federal elections due in 1993 . |
| 27 | if he says a third , write it on the order form , do you see what I mean the order form closing ? |
| 28 | And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally . |
| 29 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 30 | In 1864 he received a first class in classical honour moderations , and then in 1867 a first in literae humaniores , even though he was said to have read no more than half the required books . |