Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 2 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 3 | One evening he clambered down with an armful of tin pipes and funnels , scooped a cupful of fermenting liquid out of the barrel , and disappeared into the lavatory . |
| 4 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 5 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 6 | One day he looked up at her , met her eyes . |
| 7 | He seemed friendly : one day he sat down on Cameron 's pallet bed , looking sheepish . |
| 8 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 9 | One morning he batted on to an unbeaten hundred . |
| 10 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |