Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 2 | In Wasmes he lived at first with a baker called Jean-Baptiste Denis and his wife Esther . |
| 3 | ‘ Adam , ’ he whispered at last , ‘ Adam — boy — remember yourself ! |
| 4 | ‘ It 's true , ’ he whispered at last , carefully . |
| 5 | ‘ Ilbrec ! ’ he whispered at last . |
| 6 | He succeeded as fourth baronet in 1731 . |
| 7 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 8 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 9 | He ruled at first in a subordinate position to his brother , Aethelberht ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but whether or not the Aethelberht , king of Kent , who died in 762 ( ASC A , s.a. 760 ) , is to be identified with Aethelberht , son of Wihtred , has been disputed . |
| 10 | He smelled of last year 's sweat . |
| 11 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 12 | ‘ Thoo knows what 's tekken place , Aah reckons , ’ he announced at last . |
| 13 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 14 | ‘ Should he be so red ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 15 | " You took that money ? " he asked at last . |
| 16 | ‘ What ? ’ he asked at last , in a faint voice . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you mean that ? ’ he asked at last , his voice astonishingly gentle in contrast to that violent physical sensation . |
| 18 | " Are you going on Surete General business ? " he asked at last in a low voice after glancing around again to see if they could be overheard . |
| 19 | " Why are n't you interested in this good news ? " he asked at last in an exasperated voice . |
| 20 | ‘ What does this mean ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 21 | ‘ Where is your horse ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 22 | ‘ Do other men make you react like this ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 23 | ‘ Ready to go ? ’ he asked at last , but she hesitated and ducked her head , and he stepped towards her . |
| 24 | ‘ What does ‘ exploit ’ mean ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you going to ask me in ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 26 | ‘ How did I manage that ? ’ he asked at last , in a flat , uninflected tone very different from the passionate outburst of a moment earlier . |
| 27 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 28 | And , never having met such an abominable man , she actually heard herself telling him just how large the mortgage on the apartment was , and , while she was recovering from having actually told him something she regarded as no one 's business but her own , and was taking another breath to rage on , he got in first . |
| 29 | She opened her mouth — he got in first . |
| 30 | Leith closed the door with an angry thud , then opened her mouth to let fly — but he got in first . |