Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was impressive in his Premier League debut against Nottingham Forest and retained his place for the 1–1 draw with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 2 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 3 | When Cristofori built his pianos of the 1720s , the harpsichord and the clavichord were the usual stringed keyboard instruments . |
| 4 | In the aftermath of the April 1981 riots in Brixton the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , used his powers under the 1964 Police Act to appoint Lord Scarman to inquire into the events , produce a report , and make recommendations . |
| 5 | The prosecution had alleged that Mr Hatton used his influence on the two councillors — who chaired influential committees — to swing deals for his close friend Monk , 45 , without proper competition . |
| 6 | Cristofori provided his pianos of the 1720s with a proper check . |
| 7 | Your correspondent has re-read his report on the 1968 Glasgow Actuarial Students ’ supper and considers the article probably conveyed as much on his changing view of the world as it did on the supper itself . |
| 8 | While Nonconformists were not ‘ ashamed of the many-windowed chapel , the vulgar conventicle ’ , a Chairman of the Congregational Union told his audience during the 1897 May meetings , they had shown that they could ‘ also appreciate the noblest architecture , and pay for it , too ! ’ |
| 9 | Reportedly stung by media criticism that he had appointed a mediocre Cabinet , Franco personally contacted PMDB leader Orestes Quércia , the former governor of the state of Sao Paulo who was known to be wary of involvement in the interim government in case it affected his chances in the 1994 presidential elections . |
| 10 | By the time Francis Place was serving his apprenticeship in the 1780s he and his fellows were avid consumers of leisure . |
| 11 | Welsh will be publishing his results in the 1 June issue of The Astrophysical Journal . |
| 12 | JACOB JABUNI YIDANA : a former Chief Superintendent of Police , he served an eight-year prison sentence and is now being held in administrative detention without charge or trial , apparently because he implicated his government in the 1982 murders of three High Court judges and a retired army officer . |
| 13 | Hodson-Smith has sent papers detailing his fears to the three stations involved and Nuclear Electric is studying them , although it emphasises that the software has not yet been fully integrated into the control system for the reactors . |
| 14 | He received his knighthood in the 1979 Birthday Honours List and in 1980 was elected an Elder Brother and a Member of the Court of Trinity House . |
| 15 | He received his knighthood in the 1983 Queen 's New Year 's Honours List . |
| 16 | He received his knighthood in the 1990 New Year 's Honours List . |
| 17 | His bill was intended to deprive the debtor of the power of insulting his creditor on the one hand and to restrain the creditor from tyrannizing over his debtor on the other . |
| 18 | Yet it is doubtful whether M Mitterrand can repeat his success of the 1970s and weld the fractions of the Left — what Mme Cresson called ‘ progressive forces ’ — into a whole . |
| 19 | Judd saw his own hand , held hovering uncertainly over the heap of treasure , quiver as Stringy 's had done and wondered if that meant he looked as mad as the rest of them did ; and he wanted to say they could have it , that he was opting out and they could divide his share among the three of them and stuff it . |
| 20 | In no sense whatever was Korean communism a monolithic movement ; it was riddled with internal divisions and did not become relatively unified until Kim Il Sung purged his opponents in the 1950s after the Korean War . |
| 21 | He organized his material around the six days of creation , concentrating on cosmology , meteorology , mineralogy , zoology , and botany . |
| 22 | He continued enthusiastically perfecting his art throughout the Seventies , even becoming the official visual diarist of his work unit , but he has since described his photographic style during those years as petit-bourgeois . |
| 23 | He had to resign his seat.Then in the mid-80s , he found favour with Mrs. Thatcher , who felt his uncomplicated , cheer-leading brand of Conservatism and thrusting , go-getting style was just the ticket to rally the troops . |
| 24 | In a fit of gloom at the failure of consensus , Hoskyns had sold his company in the seventies . |
| 25 | As the Leader of the Opposition has joined us , perhaps he will use his influence on the four members of his party who voted last week to cover up the truth by refusing to permit the Select Committee on Employment to conduct an investigation into the true consequences of a national minimum wage . |
| 26 | The matchwinner threw his boots among the 4,000 fans who would not go home until manager Lennie Lawrence and players returned from the dressing room . |
| 27 | Tute was educated at Wrekin College , joined the Navy as a paymaster-cadet and served his apprenticeship throughout the thirties , becoming secretary to the Captain of the Fleet , Mediterranean . |
| 28 | Newman began his career in the 1890s at Edinburgh University and King 's College , London , where he was senior demonstrator in bacteriology and lecturer on infectious diseases . |
| 29 | Blake now divides his time between the two cities . |
| 30 | The barbel takes his name from the four long whisker-like barbules that hang from his snout . |