Example sentences of "he take [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BOY wonder Nicholas MacMahon enters a brave new world as he takes his first tentative taps on a computer keyboard . |
| 2 | The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ . |
| 3 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 4 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 5 | In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . |
| 6 | That was the point at which he took his first step towards home . |
| 7 | He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor . |
| 8 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 9 | He took his first permanent job with Metropolitan Vickers now part of GEC , broadly working in personnel , overseas recruitment and welfare before joining the University of Stirling in October 1969 as Careers and Appointments Officer . |
| 10 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 11 | When he took his second 6 at the ninth after tangling with bushes , he looked a lost cause . |
| 12 | Now , having witnessed the rout and ignominy of his friends , he took his last drink and said : |
| 13 | A little later , he took his last breath . |
| 14 | Dr Macdonald 's report was the shorter ; he took it first . |