Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 2 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 3 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 4 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 5 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 6 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 7 | He became aware of the excessive beating of his heart , and remembered the attendant 's advice not to overdo it on his first visit . |
| 8 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 9 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 10 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 11 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 12 | Nothing prepares us for his next move . |
| 13 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 14 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 15 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 16 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 17 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 18 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 19 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 21 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 22 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 23 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 24 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 25 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 26 | This may depend on their level of awareness , or , as Edward de Bono puts it in his Second Law of Thinking , what appears to be ‘ proof ’ is often no more than a lack of imagination in providing an alternative explanation . |
| 27 | Butch hit a decent shot down the first , and then turned round to ask me about his second shot . |
| 28 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |
| 29 | Surprise Offer was running without blinkers and Hannon said : ‘ He 'll definitely wear them for his next race , the Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot . ’ |
| 30 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |