Example sentences of "[num] he [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In late 1909 he also published a pamphlet , The One Life . |
2 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
3 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
4 | In 1961 he finally pulled a deal together with the Ford Motor Co and AC Cars Ltd , and early in 1962 the Cobra was born . |
5 | WHEN Laszlo Polgar , a Hungarian vocational school teacher , married his Ukrainian wife , Klara , in 1965 he carefully studied a number of books on ‘ fathering ’ . |
6 | So far from allowing that number might increase , in 1769 he even favoured a reduction of the number of the enfranchised . |
7 | Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence . |