Example sentences of "[adv] [num] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the little old girl he says , you got ta bear in mind , he said she 's only nine he said so she ca n't do none of that she come up and she could get her leg up , she went like this ! |
| 2 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 3 | It was intended that he should enter the medical profession but for financial reasons this became impossible , and when only seventeen he joined the office of the district superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway at Euston . |
| 4 | The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south . |
| 5 | The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south . |
| 6 | When only eighteen he became a fellow of Exeter College in 1826 , two years before obtaining first-class honours in classics . |
| 7 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |
| 8 | Here they expanded their activities into general building work , John Green turning his attention to the architectural side of the business ; but c .1820 he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne , from where he established his extensive professional practice in the area of Northumberland and county Durham . |
| 9 | Considering that he was the youngest player on the field at just 20 he had a memorable cap debut and seems destined to enjoy a lengthy career in Scotland 's senior squad . |
| 10 | Nothing came of the latter , but about 1838 he demonstrated a fairly successful hot-air engine in London , suitable for a road vehicle . |
| 11 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 12 | In about 1479 he offered to sell a de Vere property in London to the royal servant John Risley . |
| 13 | In about 1479 he offered to sell a de Vere property in London to the royal servant John Risley . |
| 14 | About 1630 he moved to Stourbridge , living at Stourbridge High Street at the ‘ brickhouse ’ , the later Talbot Hotel . |
| 15 | When he was about 12 he managed to acquire a pair of roller-skates . |
| 16 | When Avitus died in c. 690 he appointed Bonitus as his successor , and Pippin II , the maior and effective ruler of Austrasia and its dependencies in Aquitaine , agreed . |
| 17 | well as far as that stoat did n't offer them any thing because they , a chap about forty he reached it |
| 18 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 19 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 20 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 21 | Now 26 he decided to make a major leap into white collar work . |
| 22 | About 1122 he left England for Paris , at that time the goal of many young Englishmen who aimed to study the arts and theology . |
| 23 | When he was about thirteen he began drawing . |
| 24 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 25 | His mid teens were spent surfing on a casual basis but when he was about 17 he got into racing surf lifesaving skis and reached 3rd in the UK , a reflection on the poor standard compared with K1 racing rather than an indication of great ability , he believes . |
| 26 | In the museum 's lecture room about 1715 he began to hold courses of experimental philosophy ( physics ) , similar to those recently pioneered by John Keill in Oxford and William Whiston in London [ qq.v . ] . |
| 27 | At about 10.45 he had met William Day , who had also been working late , and they had travelled together to their appropriate homes , the houses being a stone 's throw from each other . |
| 28 | In about 1824 he entered into partnership with three fellow cotton spinners before , in 1828 , joining his brother George in a rented cotton mill in Mossley . |
| 29 | About 1884 he sold his share and turned his attention to devising an improved process for manufacturing aluminium , a metal whose unique properties could not then be adequately utilized because of its high cost . |
| 30 | In about 1516 he moved to Cambridge , where Erasmus had recently introduced the study of Greek and had asserted the supremacy of the Scriptures , ridiculing the theories of the schoolmen and their fantastic systems of interpretation . |