Example sentences of "[num] [noun] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1659 Parliament he sat for his old home town ; in one of his two recorded speeches he had to justify having arrested a leading Fifth-Monarchy man on the orders of the late lord protector . |
| 2 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 3 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 4 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 5 | Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead . |
| 6 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 7 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 8 | In an area of 300 acres he catalogued : This was a sober assessment , and resolution of the ‘ beautiful ’ problem was far from easy . |
| 9 | In an Aug. 12 interview he referred to a split in the Polisario leadership dating back to 1988 and said that he was " rallying against those who are stubbornly persisting in imposing a disastrous situation on our people … a dead-end solution " . |
| 10 | Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including : |
| 11 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 12 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 13 | A fleet of 80 ships was assembled at Brest under de Tourville , who was to be joined off Ushant by others sailing from Rochefort and Toulon , but in the event neither force was ready on time and when de Tourville sailed on 2 May he had only 37 ships , excluding fireships , under his command , though seven more arrived later . |
| 14 | But on 22 July he died in bed from ‘ occlusive coronary artery disease ’ . |
| 15 | But from 12 December he knew that he had to move somewhere , under orders . |
| 16 | He was born with a heart complaint , and in November ‘ 76 he went up to Hammersmith Hospital , and on 2 December he had an operation . |
| 17 | On 30 December he wrote : |
| 18 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 19 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 20 | Within 2 weeks he had raped and murdered Anna McGurk as she walked home from work at Gloucester City Council . |
| 21 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 22 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 23 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 24 | On 12 November he made a fourteen-mile flight from the Physic Garden in a balloon filled with hydrogen , which was witnessed by most of the population of Oxford . |
| 25 | On 12 November he decided in favour of an election on 6 December . |
| 26 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 27 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 28 | For £35 10s 0d he offered a return air fare and a camping holiday in the Corsican sunshine . |
| 29 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 30 | Early on 22 September he captured a Scarborough collier and another vessel and , later that morning , with typical effrontery , signalled for a pilot off Spurn Head , at the mouth of the Humber , and then captured the two boats sent out in response . |