Example sentences of "his [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCallen will be riding his 750 Castrol Honda in the open race against Beck on a Ducati along with Holden who is also making his first Irish national road race appearance . |
| 2 | Pictured are a few of his 120 trophies . |
| 3 | Too many books ( to boost sales one suspects ) tack on Americanisms , in language and practice , but Chris has made some of the greatest long expeditions over there , such as his 3000 mile Continental Divide route , so he is an authority on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | His 259 Palace appearances keep him high on our all-time charts while his 90 League goals still remain the club record in the post-war era . |
| 5 | Then at Christie 's , Swedish collector Dr Philip Sandbloom looked on as his 1927–28 Matisse , ‘ Harmony in yellow ’ sold for a record $13.2 million ( £8.8 million ) . |
| 6 | During his forty-seven years at Hautvillers , Dom Pérignon earned the reputation of being a generous , intelligent and meticulously minded man . |
| 7 | The bruise on his ankle was cripplingly painful and he felt his forty-seven years . |
| 8 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 9 | In his 1935 budget speech , Neville Chamberlain , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , commented on the implications of a decreasing birth rate for an imperial power and appealed for more babies . |
| 10 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 11 | he passed his eleven plus as it was then and er he went to a school called Regent Street Grammar school in Plymouth and when we moved in here I had to go to Holly House , I think they call it |
| 12 | Simon had failed his eleven plus , and then gone to a Catholic school . |
| 13 | After gaining another Youth Cup winner 's medal in 1978 , Billy became a dominant central defender alongside Jim Cannon and was a key member of the side that took the Palace back into Division One in 1979 with the best defensive record in the club 's history ; Billy also gained the first of his eleven England Under 21 caps that season . |
| 14 | One of the priests of Holy Trinity , Coventry , owned goods valued at no less than £100 , nearly three times as much as his eleven colleagues put together ; he was also vicar of Priors Hardwick . |
| 15 | Being carted for 71 off his eleven overs allowed West Indies to reach 235 , with most of the batsmen making a useful score . |
| 16 | He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators . |
| 17 | Not to his eleven children . |
| 18 | He loved horses , the birds in his outdoor aviary , and his 1934 Bentley . |
| 19 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 20 | Job losses from some of the largest employers , ICI and factories , are also likely to be on the agenda when Mr Devlin defends his 744 majority against Labour 's Mr John Scott and Liberal Democrat Mrs Kay Kirkham . |
| 21 | There were his fifty sheep with their lambs , all safe , in one field . |
| 22 | Detaching his fifty Dalwolsey men to add to Moray 's two hundred , he said farewell to the Regent , Douglas and the others , and set off north by east , up Liddesdale . |
| 23 | His face was unlined , belying his fifty years by at least a decade . |
| 24 | I remember discussing broken tanks with perhaps the most experienced fishkeeper I know ‘ Aquarian ’ expert Dr David Ford , and he 's had only one breakage in his fifty years in the hobby . |
| 25 | He has lived in his rickety hut for most of his fifty years . |
| 26 | Eochaid and his fifty horsemen had overcome the special detachment from Leven and were safely inside the monastery . |
| 27 | His 180 paintings , drawings , collages , sculptures , ceramics , printing blocks and plates by the artist are on show at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona until 30 January and then go to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne ( 27 February-16 May ) before joining the ‘ Ludwigslust ’ celebrations of all aspects of the Ludwig collection on the occasion of the reopening of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg ( 18 June-10 October ) . |
| 28 | Deric , whose back problems prevent his pivoting , prods to some purpose for his 79 years and is mustard round the greens . |
| 29 | And it has fascinated Bill Foggitt for most of his 79 years . |
| 30 | After 9 months of continued treatment he was referred to our institution , at which time his CD4 cell count was 740/L , his CMV serology ( IgG+IgM ) was positive ( titre 256 ) , and his HIV seropositivity was confirmed . |