Example sentences of "his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One further celebration was when , on Monday , Leslie celebrated his 84th birthday , it was made special by the present from granddaughter Deborah Cuff , who organised a chat on gardening with television celebrity Alan Titchmarsh ! |
| 2 | He continued in office until his death 7 July 1221 in his eighty-first year . |
| 3 | Eliot himself was now in his sixty-eighth year . |
| 4 | of No 35 Squadron who was killed on his 99th sortie . |
| 5 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 6 | The home team 's comeback was complete when Ford cross to the far post and Paul Read 's low header gave him his 17th goal of the season . |
| 7 | Dion Dublin , who has been linked with a number of top clubs , put Cambridge ahead after 53 minutes with his 17th goal of the season . |
| 8 | Brian Honour and Paul Dalton combined on the right before the latter set up Paul Baker for his 17th goal of the season at the far post . |
| 9 | Joey Dunn and Liam Watson , with his 17th goal of the season , also netted , with Keith Edwards and David Kind replying . |
| 10 | Gooch , playing in his 98th match , scored his 17th Test century . |
| 11 | It was his 17th birthday , when family affection towards him was especially warm and confident and feelings of young manhood were rife . |
| 12 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 13 | As the law stands , it is possible for a teenager to pass a driving test on his 17th birthday — and drive off in a 150mph Ford Sierra or a Mercedes sports . |
| 14 | Made reserve debut three days aftr his 17th birthday and after a substitute appearance at Wimbledon started the Premier League game against the scum in February . |
| 15 | TERRY Tyacke , 66 , of Trowbridge , Wilts — who left school with no qualifications — has passed his 17th A-level exam . |
| 16 | Paul , from the work study potting office , finished first of the threesome at 595th in two hours 46 minutes in his 17th marathon . |
| 17 | The next three moves were also known to theory , but Speelman fell into a trap with his 17th move . |
| 18 | It continues : in his nineteenth year … considering the uncertain term of human life , and the fearful end especially before the fleshly and the worldly , he took thought , by the inspiration of God , providently concerning himself ( remembering his end ) , lest he should be taken in the snares of sin . |
| 19 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 20 | Even before he reached his nineteenth birthday , he had begun to make a name as a choreographer , and one of the works he made then is still danced : only a trifle , but full of the wit that was one of his gifts . |
| 21 | Midge had lost an elder brother , killed by a shell on his nineteenth birthday in the Second World War . |
| 22 | In the eighth minute Leicester drew level as Wright pounced on a loose ball after Gee 's shot had been blocked , to score his 15th goal of the season . |
| 23 | The game had started well for QPR when England striker Les Ferdinand waltzed in for his 15th goal of the season after three minutes . |
| 24 | Southend protested bitterly before Bernie Slaven beat stand-in goalkeeper Steve Tilson for his 15th goal of the season . |
| 25 | A tall , skilful target man , Brewster notched his 15th goal of the season against Kilmarnock . |
| 26 | The tie looked over as a contest when Paatelainen got his 15th goal of the season eight minutes later . |
| 27 | He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century . |
| 28 | The 72-year-old Pontiff , celebrating his 15th Christmas as leader of the world 's 950 million Roman Catholics , urged leaders of nations to heed Christ 's yearning for peace . |
| 29 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
| 30 | As late as November 1927 he was revising poems for inclusion in Winter Words , the book with which he intended to mark his 90th birthday , but on 11 December , as Professor Millgate writes , ‘ he found himself , for the first time in his life , quite unable to work ’ . |