Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 2 | Xerxes 's fleet was destroyed in 480 at Salamis under Athenian leadership , and his army defeated the next year at Plataea under the Spartans . |
| 3 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 4 | He and his family say the second operation was unnecessary , and the hospital , the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford , was negligent ; a claim Oxfordshire Health Authority deny . |
| 5 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |
| 6 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 7 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |
| 8 | ‘ It was the best century I have ever played , ’ said Crowe as his side finished the third day on 277-6 -still 15 short of avoiding an innings defeat . |