Example sentences of "[pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was the month before my thirty-third birthday , and I was offered the appointment . |
2 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
3 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |
4 | Dorothy Bohannon , Henry Avenue , Bowburn , Durham : It was my 17th birthday . |
5 | I suppose it is a bit crass to say the one with me on it — on my 45th birthday , I think — but that 's the one alright . |
6 | ‘ Harry is my eighty-ninth baby , ’ Miss Maynard went on , proudly . |
7 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
8 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
9 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
10 | As this was my hundredth phone call , I got some publicity in the local press and the dog was found . |
11 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
12 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday — you 've always been around at the most important moments in my life , Harry . ’ |
13 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday I bought a really cheap guitar and chord book from Argos and sat in my room for about 6 months and lear n't to play the entire Siouxsie & The Banshees first album . ’ |
14 | Yes , I had my fourteenth birthday here . |
15 | So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund . |
16 | It was my fourteenth birthday . |
17 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |
18 | Kapil said : ‘ When I got my 400th Test wicket in Perth last year I promised Sunny that one day both records would belong to Indians and I intend to honour that . |
19 | Three days after my sixteenth birthday , in August 1944 , Butler 's Education Act received the royal assent . |
20 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
21 | Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby . |
22 | Although some people join the ranks of the old with relish and gloat over the advancing years ( 'I 'm in my 80th year' — i.e. 79 ) , others have commented on the incongruous feeling the idea of being old creates within them . |
23 | I started-first thing by refusing to dress myself . |
24 | Ten days ago , I spent my 33rd birthday flat on my back , contemplating the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death ( yup , it was a happy , happy day ) and wondering what my underlings would do to this column in my absence . |
25 | My second machine was somewhat similar , but had more needles . |
26 | Later , over a tandoori dinner , I was on my second lager , and something , I do n't know what , got into me . |
27 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
28 | My father and mother both died in the Royal Hampshire Country Hospital ; my second grandchild was born there ; my daughter had her appendix removed there and my wife had an MOT there . |
29 | My second uncle must have slept in this room . |
30 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |