Example sentences of "to his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supporters carried lighted torches to welcome him to his 15th and final rally in Taunton last night , giving some credence to his claim that ‘ beacons are being lit all across the West Country ’ . |
| 2 | Bede 's reckoning from 642 for the accession of Oswiu would suggest to him the year 664 , but if Oswiu did not succeed until 643 the reference to his twenty-second year would point to 665 as the year of the council . |
| 3 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 4 | At an age when most men are window shopping for zimmer frames , Ron Marsh is looking forward to his 41st year of rugby with Old Dartfordians after making his debut in December 1951 . |
| 5 | David Sieff asked us all to join in drinking Robin 's health , to which Robin replied in two sentences welcoming everyone and saying he hoped we would all come to his 100th birthday party ! |
| 6 | Thus jade , the material held most precious of all by the Chinese , was assigned by Kluge to his fifth and lowermost grade on account of its dull colour and lack of transparency . |
| 7 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 8 | At all events Boon struck 11 resonant fours in reaching his half-century and Briers 15 boundaries before surrendering to his 186th ball , at 120 . |
| 9 | He was sent to his first school there . |
| 10 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 11 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 12 | ASTRATEGY for winning , but not winning friends , took Sugar Ray Leonard to the prize and to his first $100million from boxing . |
| 13 | Zurbriggen , the Olympic downhill champion and World Cup super-giant titleholder , swept to his first victory since November 1988 in the ninth World Cup race of the current programme in 1min 37.39sec . |
| 14 | He arrived in Edinburgh that evening and was ferried by the organizer to his first reading at the university . |
| 15 | Although Paisley drove Doherty to his first meeting with Murdoch and Marshall , there is no evidence that he was himself involved in the discussions . |
| 16 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 17 | Kevin Dutton was unsure of the reaction he would get to his first unconventional portrait of a British comedian , he certainly did n't expect to find others demanding the same treatment . |
| 18 | In the autumn of 1985 , Peter Walker , Secretary of State for Energy , had taken to making the following joke in after-lunch speeches : he would quote the Duke of Wellington 's reaction to his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister : ‘ An extraordinary affair . |
| 19 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 20 | McAvennie 's second spell at West Ham was in marked contrast to his first . |
| 21 | Local driver David Oates from Four Marks , Alton has made a promising start to his first season competing in the prestigious Group N British Saloon Car Championship . |
| 22 | To his first speech to Parliament , on 18 November 1760 , the king added in his own hand the robust declaration : ‘ Born and educated in this country , I glory in the name of Britain . ’ |
| 23 | Like a coolie in the wrong continent , he 's on to his first wage of the day . |
| 24 | From the imperative to refrain on this occasion the child may advance , as he observes the situation recur in his own or others ' experience , to his first general principle : |
| 25 | Mr Deaves — said to have paid £300,000 alimony to his first wife , TV presenter Fran Morrison — lives with second wife Jacqui in a guest house in the grounds . |
| 26 | Tomba is clearly looking forward to his first race in Italy since winning a gold and a silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Albertville last year , to add to two golds he took in 1988 . |
| 27 | Lewis was then run out needlessly when failing to react to Emburey 's call for a third run , and Paul Jarvis was lbw to his first ball . |
| 28 | All that and Benn has made the grand gesture of giving his new WBC belt to his first conqueror , Michael Watson , who is slowly recovering after the brain damage he suffered against Eubank last year . |
| 29 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 30 | He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood . |