Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 2 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 3 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 4 | It was a favourite of his , because he identified with the third line of its first verse — He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword . |
| 5 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 6 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 7 | Throughout January he worked upon the third act of the play and . |
| 8 | He went into the third hangar . |
| 9 | She sold them to Henry Skelton 's girlfriend shortly before he fell from a third floor window and died . |
| 10 | Exasperated by what he saw as Theo 's heartless neglect of him , he unleashed a volley of angry questions to a brother he relegated to the third person : ‘ Why does n't he write ? |