Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] his third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farloe Melody , bidding for his third appearance in the Derby final — he won it two years ago — has missed out in the trap draw for heat 15 . |
| 2 | Following the completion of Rebel Without a Cause , Warners put him straight to work on his third movie , Giant , an epic directed by George Stevens and featuring a stellar line-up including Elizabeth Taylor , Rock Hudson , Sal Mineo and Carroll Baker . |
| 3 | Graham looks at his third can of beer thoughtfully . |
| 4 | He was living with his third wife , the ice goddess Veronica , in an LA mansion , surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime — a six-foot , hand-carved tiger given to him by Deng Xiaoping , a robe given to him by Elvis Presley . |
| 5 | Crazily , it was Rangers who were then holding on — but Sinton finally secured the points they barely deserved with his third . |
| 6 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 7 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 8 | When ambitions to become an opera singer and then a sports writer failed , he turned to his third interest — car racing . |
| 9 | Jimi gets through his third Fender before lunch |
| 10 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 11 | Portadown-based Crowe , a close season signing by Bangor , embarks on his third successive European mission wiser in more ways than one from the Antwerp experience . |
| 12 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 13 | Graham Gooch leads the senior side to India and Sri Lanka , but after failing to make an impact in the Test team during the series against Pakistan he seemed more likely to go on his third A-team tour , this time to Australia . |
| 14 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 15 | But he strode to his third consecutive British Open Amputee Championship at Bryn Meadows , South Wales , netting a new course record into the bargain . |
| 16 | Francis initially wants Wegerle on a month 's loan but if he is successful it could lead to his third £1million move . |
| 17 | In March 1959 , Crawford appeared in his third and final production at the Belgrade Theatre , playing Lucius in Julius Caesar , his and the company 's first Shakespearean play . |
| 18 | Racing : Little Polvier poised for his third National victory . |
| 19 | From an early age , Shah Jehan made it clear that he did not care for his third son , and instead increasingly lavished attention on the more amiable Dara Shukoh . |
| 20 | When his par-saving putt of 15 feet pulled up short of the hole , Gilford was assured of his third European victory . |
| 21 | With great daring Philip actually wrote in his third Report that occupation of the villa ‘ certainly lasted until the very end of the fourth century , and possibly well into the fifth century ’ ( p. 60 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Come down to the river and do some fishing with me , ’ she suggested after his third afternoon of idle silence . |
| 23 | In the present cases , Gustave did n't get horny enough ; though some see in his third project a vague forerunner of either Madame Bovary or Un coeur simple . |
| 24 | Taylor , 47 , was taken ill last week while working on his third album in a Florida recording studio . |
| 25 | Also at this event the Champion of Oulton series continues with Graham Riley of Rochdale out to prove that he can stay on top of the contest and improve on his third place last year . |