Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun sg] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the sum did n't quite fit onto one blackboard he moved onto another and when they were all full up continued on the walls . |
| 2 | In one speech he called for the creation of several " Hong Kongs " along China 's coast . |
| 3 | In one movement he lay across her . |
| 4 | Nothing very strange happened to Leonard , until one year he travelled by train across Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | For one moment he looked as if he was raising his hands in surrender , then he leapt forward . |
| 6 | To one child he spoke to , wilderness was ‘ the dark space under my bed . ’ |
| 7 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
| 8 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 9 | On one occasion he went with Ken to visit Charlie and Lou in their basement flat in Kensington . |
| 10 | On one occasion he announced to all those assembled at Apollo Place that he had had enough of life and went downstairs to put his head in the oven . |
| 11 | He therefore never spoke ill of Harrow ; and on one occasion he announced in a speech there that when he was first called upon to form a government he was determined to have the unprecedented number of six Harrovians in his Cabinet . |
| 12 | On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers . |
| 13 | ( On one occasion he helped in conjunction with a Dutch charitable organisation to arrange a holiday in the Netherlands for some of the children . ) |
| 14 | Even the elements failed to subdue him — on one occasion he persisted in declaiming from the balcony overlooking the square at Samis for more than an hour , in the course of which a downpour cut the loudspeaker system dozens of times . |
| 15 | Supporting himself on one elbow he leaned over her . |
| 16 | On one journey he came across a room with sixteen doors leading off it , all locked . |
| 17 | At one time he engaged in privateering and Burghley recommended marriage to any rich widow . |
| 18 | At one time he lived in Devon I think and he also has association with Yorkshire , so that is could be quite probably in the countryside but it does n't have to be a forest , does n't have to be a fox out there but he does actually say I imagine this midnight moment 's forest . |
| 19 | At one time he left off animal food , as he said , that his ‘ teeming brain ’ might not be in a greater mist than was natural to it . |
| 20 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 21 | At one stage he turned to the Home Secretary , sitting beside hint , and said : ‘ It was that day , was it not ? ’ |