Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |
| 2 | Maskell first here 's his record … over the years he 's nearly averaging a goal every other game … quarter of a million pounds he cost Swindon … one of the bargain buys of the season … |
| 3 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 4 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 5 | At odds of 10-1 he bet a hundred pounds he could complete 200 miles in less than nine hours on horseback . |
| 6 | Fate decreed therefore that my very first exposure to this unlikely world was as interpreter for the British representative ( a pleasant dairy farmer used to having a hundred cows he knew by name ) at the milk pasteurization subcommittee of the Central Agricultural Control . |