Example sentences of "he his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 2 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 3 | Curiously , Abbado is succeeding the man who gave him his first big break . |
| 4 | Michael Caine 's cockney Alfie ( foreign to American ears ) won him his first nomination in 1966 , but he had to play an American to win at last , twenty years later , in Hannah and Her Sisters . |
| 5 | A right-wing corner by the left-footed Preece was met so powerfully by James that the young full-back could be proud of the header which brought him his first goal of the season … |
| 6 | But there was an interesting sequel , which gave him his first , insightful , small stab at directing . |
| 7 | They gave him his first meal , of bread for the body and purifying salt for the immortal soul , and cheered as his tiny red face puckered at the taste and he yelled lustily . |
| 8 | The libraries that Hoggart remembers as giving him his first education in English literature acquired serious books of every kind . |
| 9 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 10 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 11 | His old course and his new job gave him his first academic publication : a grammar of the Albanian language . |
| 12 | Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business . |
| 13 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 14 | It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 15 | Still , though 1974 provided only I 5 points for Hunt , it did offer him his first FI victory , in a non-championship race at Silverstone . |
| 16 | He was taken under the paternal wing of MGM who launched him in 1942 in tiny roles in prestige films like Mrs Miniver and Random Harvest , finally allowing him his first major role in 1945 in Son of Lassie , and to blossom as a leading man opposite leading ladies such as Judy Garland ( Easter Parade ) , June Allyson ( Two Sisters from Boston ) , and Elizabeth Taylor ( Little Women ) . |
| 17 | I gave him his first bath . |
| 18 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 19 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just his paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 20 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 21 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
| 22 | Skipton and its members rounded out his trans-Pennine duchy interests , as well as giving him his first territorial stake in the West Riding . |
| 23 | His new wife Fatmawati gave him his first son , Guntur , whose name means ‘ thunder ’ . |
| 24 | The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention . |
| 25 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 26 | DeVore who had found him his first , important contacts in City America . |
| 27 | Gungawatti , when frightened by a swarm of jungle bees , gave him his first ride on the back of a bolting elephant . |
| 28 | Davies was also skilled at constructing local earthworks to prevent flooding by the Severn and his earned him his first big contract from the Montgomeryshire Public Works Engineer , Thomas Penson ( presumably the same Penson of Oswestry who worked with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and was responsible for the design of stations including the recently refurbished Gobowen station and Shrewsbury 's joint station ) . |
| 29 | Morris also supplied Swan with two of his three National mounts — Last of the brownies , Mick 's Star and Roc de Prince — but he did n't give him his first Liverpool winner . |
| 30 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |