Example sentences of "[prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the December of 1844 , shortly after his thirtieth birthday and five years after the death of his brother Robert , Benjamin Titford had his portrait painted in water-colours by G. J. Adkin . |
| 2 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 3 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 4 | I asked him if after his second second to Pottz he did n't feel history was repeating itself . |
| 5 | After his second retirement eight years later , he was again ‘ let down lightly ’ , by doing a few days ' work a month on market research . |
| 6 | Oxford captain Michael Patton cut a desolate figure after his second successive Varsity defeat . |
| 7 | After his second day as substitute games and sports master , Bodie drove wearily to CI5 , and checked in at Forensic , then at Traffic . |
| 8 | Braque died in 1963 , three years after his second major Swiss retrospective , held at the Basel Kunsthalle . |
| 9 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 10 | This was mainly the result of the action taken by Roosevelt shortly after his second inauguration : his attempt to reform the Supreme Court . |
| 11 | Authors in both traditions happily wrote away in the footsteps of the great Sherlock for a good many years after his second , slightly less flamboyant departure from the scene . |
| 12 | Tom was clean and dry during the day shortly after his second birthday , but at over 3½ years old he still needs a nappy at night . |
| 13 | It was a disappointed Graham who sat in the clubhouse after his second defeat . |
| 14 | Wilkinson cooly ignored the gulf in rankings , not to mention the intimidating figure of Ivanisevic at the other side of the net , pointing out after his second round triumph : ‘ He is only human , like anyone else . ’ |
| 15 | His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal , edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke . |
| 16 | Following a wretched tour upset by injury , Lawrence finally achieved his dream of playing an overseas Test for his country a week after his 28th birthday . |
| 17 | Those comments came just after hed left Leeds , just after his 1st game for them I think . |
| 18 | Haslemere architect Alan Coombes arriving at Brighton on his 1914 500cc Douglas motorcycle last Sunday after his 15th successful entry in the annual veteran motor-cycle pioneer run . |
| 19 | Tomorrow he takes in a further round of 125cc British championship at Donington Park and after his ninth spot in the Supercup at a wet Oulton last weekend he 'll be one of the leading contenders . |
| 20 | In February 1944 , after his twentieth victory , nineteen of them at night , Braham was taken off intruder and escort work and put in charge of night operations at No. 2 Light Bomber Group headquarters . |
| 21 | Ian Hannah is likely to receive a much heavier punishment after his fifth sending-off in three years at Bradford . ’ |
| 22 | Four months later , 24 hours after his fifth outpatient endoscopy session , he complained of retrosternal pain . |
| 23 | He had held the title for a year now , since just after his twenty-second birthday . |
| 24 | After his 74th minute strike , he admitted : ‘ My mum is my No 1 coach . |
| 25 | He retired only after his sixty-fifth birthday , and it proved quite simple to reduce the engine to efficient silence . |
| 26 | Nearly two decades after his first solo album , and four years since his last , Cale has signed to the Opal company ( run by his old friend Brian Eno ) who have just released Words for the Dying , the bulk of which is Cale 's first extended classical work , The Falklands Suite . |
| 27 | The Sonata is imaginatively coupled with Britten 's , written after his first meeting with Shostakovich in 1961 . |
| 28 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 29 | Having been four-over par after his first three holes on Thursday , that was quite a recovery . |
| 30 | But after his first shot , Mr Smith will find it virtually impossible to raise much additional revenue from the better-off . |