Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [num ord] birthday " in BNC.

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1 I was recently diagnosed with a malignant tumour and expect to observe my 42nd birthday in hospital .
2 All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane .
3 In the country as a whole a staggering two-thirds of black babies are born to unmarried mothers ; 43% of black children are , by government criteria , born poor ; many do not live to see their first birthday .
4 The work of the Guild in a home environment to celebrate its 21st birthday
5 His Francesca was a rising star in the Department of Trade and Industry , and they planned to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a skiing holiday , due to start in two weeks ' time .
6 Nothing was heard from him after he faxed a message home giving arrangements for his mother to meet him to celebrate her 40th birthday .
7 Detectives believe the pensioner , who is due to celebrate her 100th birthday next month , was repeatedly punched in the face by her attacker who probably escaped through the bedroom window .
8 " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday .
9 Mathilde had planned a party for her , a party to celebrate her sixteenth birthday in a week 's time .
10 From Hampton Court , I drove back to London , and to the Ritz Hotel for the luncheon that Mr Allan Davis and friends of Miss Evelyn Laye had arranged to celebrate her ninetieth birthday .
11 Jack had taken Susan to a ball there , to celebrate her twenty-first birthday ; and Breeze , a round-eyed thirteen-year old , had been allowed to go and watch .
12 It 's a modern affliction to look at an aircraft , something that has yet to reach its 100th birthday in our history , and take it for granted .
13 All four have still to reach their 16th birthday .
14 Gál was a consummate craftsman , and he wrote an enormous amount of music , not least for mandolin ; indeed , a quick look at the catalogue compiled by his daughter Eva to celebrate his 95th birthday reveals no fewer than fifteen works involving that instrument .
15 The funeral service today at the church of St John the Baptist on the edge of the Lonsdale estate is just a week before Louis was due to celebrate his first birthday .
16 Little Colin Patterson returned to the Jubilee Maternity Hospital with his mum Karen to celebrate his first birthday and to hand over a cheque for £675 to the neo natal unit , where he weighed in at only 2lb 14ozs .
17 Wright could n't have asked for a better way to celebrate his 29th birthday today .
18 LESTER Piggott could be out of hospital in time to celebrate his 57th birthday on Thursday , his daughter Maureen said today .
19 It was a perfect day for Bayle to celebrate his 23rd birthday , though he is not expected to contest any of the remaining 11 ties , except perhaps his native French round in July .
20 When their daughter , never at ease with her father , comes to celebrate his eightieth birthday , she arrives with her current admirer and his young son .
21 A party was held at A L'Ecu de France to celebrate the first night , and on the following evening a small reception was held at Kensington Court Gardens to celebrate his seventieth birthday .
22 IN AUGUST 1962 , Sam Goldwyn packed the Beverly Hilton to celebrate his 80th birthday .
23 He has England under-21 honours and at the weekend picked up a Barclays Young Eagle of the Month award for the East Anglia and South to celebrate his 21st birthday .
24 He was yet to reach his thirtieth birthday , Magee thought , but ravaged beyond his years .
25 Viz comic did not yet exist , though to celebrate our 10th birthday they have specially drawn this moving portrait of The Fat Slags at school .
26 To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference .
27 An accurate scholar and an inspired teacher , he did not become a Professor in Bristol — yet his friends and pupils combined to give him that rarest of honours , a Festschrift , a book containing some of their best work , published to mark his 70th birthday .
28 Discounting an institute exam , he was able to mark his 22nd birthday in rather more conventional style last week , before his arrival here in the middle of the rainy season on the second leg of Scotland 's three-week sevens tour .
29 As late as November 1927 he was revising poems for inclusion in Winter Words , the book with which he intended to mark his 90th birthday , but on 11 December , as Professor Millgate writes , ‘ he found himself , for the first time in his life , quite unable to work ’ .
30 LAST YEAR Andy Nicol had to wait until August — five months after the event — to hold his 21st birthday party .
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