Example sentences of "[det] [num] [noun pl] he " in BNC.

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1 For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had .
2 The paper was based on the exploratory findings of some 30 interviews he had conducted with radio astronomers and biologists .
3 ‘ . After another 10 minutes he is with me .
4 Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest .
5 After some 18 months he handed over to Mr T. White .
6 Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach .
7 And we have some 150 letters he sent to her right up to the day before his death .
8 After another thirty seconds he removed the head-set .
9 When at the end of June it still was not finished , the buyer informed the seller that if it was not ready in another four weeks he would then regard the contract as repudiated .
10 It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing .
11 ‘ There was a silly damned bird called the phoenix back before Christ : every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up .
12 So in an effort to reconcile these two positions he introduces into his argument yet another metaphysical principle , viz. the " principle of sufficient reason " .
13 In the former ( and better recorded ) of these two Parliaments he spoke as a kind of expert witness about the problems connected with English cloth exports to the Netherlands , in favour of free speech ( in the context of Puritan attempts to silence pro-Catholics ) , and for measures being proposed against the taking of fees by office-holders being extended to lawyers in private practice .
14 In all three raids he claimed he had a gun and at one building society he told staff he was armed with a hand grenade .
15 In all 16 cases he found nerve damage .
16 Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required .
17 Those ninety minutes he played over three seasons had a lingering influence on fellow players and league positions alike .
18 ‘ And if those four days he will need to collect Oreste were to come off Ferdinando 's own holiday which he would not take again then you would lose nothing , ma'am , if you please . ’
19 As soon as the Indian earns three reales a day , he will never work more than half the week , so that he will still have the same nine reales he gets at present .
20 After spending some time with the injured fan , Baggio said that if there was any violence during last Sunday 's game between the same two sides he would ask to be substituted .
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