Example sentences of "he [conj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red .
2 The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth .
3 On his way to the office he had asked for a thermos of coffee to be sent to him and two mugs and a bowl of sugar and some milk .
4 What could be so vital to send him and two women trekking around the place ?
5 He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux .
6 The door knob turns behind him and two men step silently into the room .
7 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
8 Criticizing Vatra Romaneasca ( Romanian Hearth — a nationalist organization for the defence of Romanian interests in Transylvania ) , Tokes demanded a statement about its proposal to investigate him and nine others for " threatening the security of Romania " .
9 Keating was arrested on Sept. 18 after the Los Angeles district attorney issued a 42-count state indictment against him and three others .
10 He was accused of armed robbery of nearly £200 in January 1976 but 15 months later charges against him and 20 others were dropped .
11 Scumtona should have been sent off — and as for the UEFA pannel banning him for 3/4 games — I think the refs phrase should be , oh Eric we do n't know why we love you but we do .
12 THE skipper of a yacht died yesterday after he and two friends fell overboard during a race off Angle , Dyfed .
13 He tells the story of one occasion when he and two friends decided to swim across to the island from Aberdour .
14 He and two friends were cleared of the killing on appeal earlier this week .
15 Werner Bischof died young : he was only 38 when the Jeep in which he and two companions were travelling plunged into a gorge in the Andes on May 16 1954 .
16 Det Sgt Window , 39 , who is married with two children , was attacked when he and two colleagues called at a house in Tottenham , north London .
17 The one time City and England striker , now a millionaire businessman , put the pressure on chairman Peter Swales by revealing that he and two colleagues were prepared to put substantial funds into the club in return for a seat on the board .
18 Initially , just two of the canoeists capsized but a third also got into difficulties after he and two colleagues attempted to rescue their friends .
19 Initially just two of the canoeists capsized but a third also got into difficulties after he and two colleagues attempted a rescue .
20 In 1921 he and five others were charged with fraudulent misrepresentation in floating shares of Jubilee Cotton Mills Ltd. in 1919–20 .
21 ‘ I was in Flint 's ship when he and six seamen hid the treasure , ’ he said .
22 He and nine accomplices were said to have hacked into a bank 's computer and gained access to the Treasury 's accounts .
23 A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule .
24 He and four friends — also awaiting trial — are alleged to be organisers of a drug-running network .
25 Durand , only the third Frenchman to win the event , came home alone after he and three others had broken clear of the field with 134 miles to go .
26 The battle was revealed yesterday by Mr Alan Rodmell after he and three friends were fined £50 each for digging for worms on the protected Budle Bay , Lindisfarne , off the coast of Northumberland .
27 His first car was a 1964 Ford Consul which he and three friends bought for £15 , plus an additional £5 for petrol .
28 Feeling in the East End Bangladeshi community has been running high since Quaddus , 17 , was kicked and punched , suffering serious head injuries , after he and three friends were set upon .
29 Angus MacInnes , 47 , sustained head injuries after he was caught in an icefall as he and three friends were about to start a climb in the Cairngorms .
30 He and three passengers travelling with him were arrested , on the grounds that the car was not registered in the name of the driver .
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