Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 2 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 3 | He pointedly did not release the 539 delegates he has already amassed . |
| 4 | At fifty feet he levelled out , slipped the safety off the spear gun , and swam slowly round the coral outcrop . |
| 5 | For six months he lived in even more spartan conditions at Timbertop , in the Australian bush . |
| 6 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 7 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 8 | In the first six lines he asks when that love which is incarnated in Jesus will " com to comforth me " " bryng me owt of care " " gyf me " , and sets these verbs of power potentially activated on his behalf with his own sense of motionless deprivation : " I stand in still mowrnyng " . |
| 9 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 10 | But in the next six frames he aggregated only 51 points . |
| 11 | umpteen children he brings in and they have |
| 12 | Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before . |
| 13 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 14 | Those ninety minutes he played over three seasons had a lingering influence on fellow players and league positions alike . |
| 15 | In three months he has n't committed a single offence . |
| 16 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 17 | He tells us that there are three things he does not think acupuncture can cure : existential Angst , low self-esteem and love sickness . |
| 18 | Twenty-seven questions he got out in ten minutes , and answered three . |
| 19 | Followed by the three disciples he loved best , |
| 20 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 21 | He might look 17 going on 23 but , even if he turns out to be nearly as old as he appears , it will not render the three wickets he took on his debut as void . |
| 22 | After some 18 months he handed over to Mr T. White . |
| 23 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 24 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
| 25 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 26 | They chose Ian Botham , their young hero — he was then twenty-four — who had already performed great deeds in the twenty-five Tests he had so far played . |
| 27 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 28 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
| 29 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 30 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |