Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 2 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 3 | Momentarily glimpsed would be nineteen-year-old Richard Dreyfuss appearing in his first movie as a Berkeley student , with one line : ‘ Shall I get the cops ? |
| 4 | Geoff Hamilton brings you more gardening diary entries , Dr Stefan Buczacky visits Paeony Valley in Langport , Somerset , David Stevens returns with his second feature on front garden design and Anne Swithinbank goes into the greenhouse ; |
| 5 | Simon Hodgkinson levelled at his fourth goal attempt , but a late try for Ireland signalled the grandstand finish sealed by a Mike Teague try . |
| 6 | Here Robert Burns stayed on his last visit to Edinburgh in 1791 . |
| 7 | In his Genesee Diary , Henri Nouwen wrote of his first encounter with John Eudes , head of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani , who was to become his director : |
| 8 | Walker , who has scored 14 tries in 15 Heineken League matches in his first full season for Cardiff , is the only change from the team defeated 20-0 by Scotland . |
| 9 | As the Solihull stalwart prepares for his 16th consecutive Davis Cup appearance , JOHN OAKLEY reports on Britain 's most loyal player . |
| 10 | MOTORBIKE champ Craig Mason died in his last race before quitting the sport . |
| 11 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 12 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 13 | GERRY Kelly returns for his fifth season of chat and entertainment in Kelly ( UTV , Friday , 10.40pm. ) with a bright new update to the title music , programme titles , and a re-decorated studio to greet his guests and live audience . |
| 14 | ‘ Nice to see you back , ’ said chairman , Alban Maginness to his former party colleague as Austin Currie went through his 18th or 19th conference , this time though , from the unfamiliar position of looking at the rostrum rather than being on it . ’ |
| 15 | VINNIE Jones returned for his first match of the season and celebrated his comeback after injury with the goal which earned Wimbledon a point . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston . |
| 17 | JASON Dozzell prepares for his 400th Ipswich Town game at Manchester City tomorrow saying : ‘ We all need to step it up ten per cent . ’ |
| 18 | Ten minutes later , top-scoring striker John Taylor rattled in his ninth goal of the season . |
| 19 | On July 18 James Baker embarked on his fifth tour of the Middle East since March . |
| 20 | Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ? |
| 21 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |