Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 2 | Its title is ‘ Out of Sight Out of Mind ’ ( 14 February-20 March ) , and director Nicholas Logsdail has selected fifty artists to illustrate his theme . |
| 3 | But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient . |
| 4 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 5 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 6 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 7 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
| 8 | Then he holed from 12 feet to keep his slender advantage after being bunkered at the sixteenth . |
| 9 | Langer , champion here in 1985 , took 12 holes to summon his first birdie . |
| 10 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |
| 11 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 12 | Joe the jet pilot has logged 100 hours flying his plane at a Speed of 548.25km per hour . |
| 13 | DUBLIN 'S Tommy Carr has been banned for six months following his sending off in the recent National League Football final against Donegal . |
| 14 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 15 | Over 100 guests attended his retiral dinner at the Normandy Hotel , Renfrew . |
| 16 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 17 | NEW Zealand captain Martin Crowe played a masterful innings of 91 off just 100 balls to lead his side to a thrilling victory with two balls remaining in the one-day international against Australia in Hamilton today . |
| 18 | In 1971 rebels attacked his birthday party ; the king had in a lavatory . |
| 19 | A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat . |
| 20 | For all his eagerness , when he came to the testing time he hesitated to touch , and two or three times poised his hands over the book , only to withdraw them again from contact . |
| 21 | He spent several weeks in hospital , and needed three operations to repair his damaged liver . |
| 22 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 23 | David battled for three minutes to restart his heart , then had him rushed to hospital where last night he was critically ill with burns and internal injuries . |
| 24 | He received the help he needed and in the next three months showed his superb generalship by totally subduing the island . |
| 25 | A GAY rights activist was back behind bars last night after three judges rejected his appeal against conviction for a sex attack on a teenage boy . |
| 26 | A shopkeeper whose premises have been smashed open by ramraiders twice in three weeks says his local council have stopped him installing protective security shutters . |
| 27 | Now Senna has three weeks to plan his attack in Japan . |
| 28 | Even the gourd comes off better than the poor whale , who is no more than a floating prison where Jonah spends three days purging his contempt of court . |
| 29 | Made reserve debut three days aftr his 17th birthday and after a substitute appearance at Wimbledon started the Premier League game against the scum in February . |
| 30 | Bates back at Roland Garros for the first time in three years opens his challenge against Ctislav Dosedel of the Czech Republic , a player ranked nine places lower on the world computer at 111 . |