Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 2 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 3 | Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude . |
| 4 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 5 | The stoma care nurse and ward nurses were able to answer his questions over the next few days and also showed Mr Reynolds some of the bags which can be worn over a stoma and let him practise handling these . |
| 6 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 7 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 8 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 9 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 10 | By spreading his proposals over the next three years Norman Lamont sent out the message that he was looking ahead and planning for the future , said Mr Wellerd . |
| 11 | He has great potential to be a world champion , and he will be the kind of driver we would like to retain his services through the next possible two , three years , so it 's a longer term situation with him . |
| 12 | Mr Kostikov said the president would announce his plans in the next few days . |
| 13 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 14 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 15 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 16 | Nicholas impeded his generals in the first campaigning season by taking the field personally , but in 1829 Ivan Dibich led the army deep into eastern Thrace while Paskevich , in the east , took Kars and Erzerum ( a campaign immortalized in prose by Aleksandr Pushkin ) . |
| 17 | Dr Ger Van Vliet , scientific director of the Botanical Gardens in Lieden , said his tasks in the next three years would be to make customs officials more aware of endangered plants , reducing the illegal trade , and help countries supplying wild plants to sell correctly propagated specimens . |
| 18 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 19 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |
| 20 | Right now , Jordan would settle for a goalless draw and take his chances in the second leg at Tynecastle . |
| 21 | Cameron turned back into the house for his cloak and tried to order his thoughts as the last fogginess of sleep evaporated in his head . |
| 22 | STEVE DAVIS revealed last night how he has conquered his nerves and set his sights on a seventh UK Championship . |