Example sentences of "he [vb -s] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope he appreciates the three ‘ immediates ’ , ’ the General said . |
| 2 | Military analysts say President Bush is deluded if he thinks the 30,000 troops will be home by January 20 , when Bill Clinton takes over . |
| 3 | FRENCH TRAINER Andre Fabre 's lightning visit to Newbury ensured he has the 2,000 Guineas favourite in his yard — but curiously it is not Lion Cavern , the courageous winner of the Singer & Friedlander Greenham Stakes . |
| 4 | He wants the two actors to invent the scene we never see . |
| 5 | He wants the 2 jails to have independent management . |
| 6 | He says the nineteen sixty-eight caravan act does n't include new-age travellers who are not traditional gypsies so we do n't have to provide anything for them by law . |
| 7 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 8 | But he says the two are not linked . |
| 9 | He says the two companies will form a strong group which will play an important part on the international stage . |
| 10 | A single Goblin can continue to use the huge prodder to keep back the Squigs and fight , but he loses the +1 strength bonus as the prodder is exceptionally unwieldy . |
| 11 | He describes the four levels of question formulation as follows : |
| 12 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 13 | For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn . |
| 14 | He describes the 6 per cent decline in grain output between 1984 and 1992 as the " most disturbing economic trend in the world today " and argues that people either need to eat less or differently : to " move down the food chain " by eating less meat . |
| 15 | He likens the Nineties to the Sixties . |
| 16 | Although he loathes the Nineties cult of the personality , one suspects that , in future , it wo n't just be his players who are watching him . |
| 17 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 18 | He keeps the two spheres as separate as possible , leading an almost Jekyll and Hyde existence . |
| 19 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 20 | He fishes the seven lumps of sugar out of his coffee . |
| 21 | Anderson 's occasional bursts of verbosity implicate a sudden urge to speak on a particular topic and this is most noticeable in scene four where he surprises the two footballers , Broadbent and Crisp , with a turn of 86 words giving unsolicited advice on the Czech team 's tactics ( p. 59 ) . |
| 22 | Old Sandy at Crossapol , with a fierce mane of white hair like Bertrand Russell , still ‘ fumes ’ when he remembers the eight innocent Tiree men arrested in 1886 at a Land League meeting at Balephuil . |
| 23 | Since then he has dedicated his life to his practice in Calcutta where he now only sees the most difficult cases , particularly those with organic pathology for which he finds the 50 millesimal potencies especially appropriate . |
| 24 | He claims not to remember anything of his ‘ death ’ , but various events in the death story recur in his second life : he confuses the five moon-children he fathers with his real children , and he speaks of people as though they were cosmic bodies . |
| 25 | Over the next 12 months he expects the three to sell at least 10 systems solutions n the UK . |
| 26 | He himself comes up with the plan of delegation , and he empowers the seventy elders for their tasks once they are chosen . |
| 27 | Indeed , he remains the one royal personage whom portraitists most want to paint . |
| 28 | He rejects the two main criticisms pointed at the method , that it is too subjective and too flexible . |
| 29 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 30 | Unpaid , he makes the 90 mile round trip to Esh Winning three times a week for a total £10 expenses . |