Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denying his guilt to the last , he said he did n't bear his wife any ill will . |
| 2 | Oxford United will be announcing their new manager in the morning — we 'll be revealing his name for the first time , tonight on Central News . |
| 3 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 4 | He was educated at home , and at the King Jan Sobieski Gymnasium in Cracow , then at the Jagiellonian University , where he studied physics , mathematics , and philosophy , gaining his doctorate in the last subject ‘ with the highest imperial honours ’ in 1908 . |
| 5 | Clearly he was saving his powder for the next negotiating battle in the GATT talks . |
| 6 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 7 | They all sat around , reminding each other of things they all remembered , each waiting his cue for the next reminiscence to be slotted in . |
| 8 | Edwards , who played on despite breaking his nose in the first half , insisted : ‘ Widnes created as many chances as we did , but we were a little more clinical in our finishing . |
| 9 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 10 | Senior champion Andrew Roche ( Liverpool Mercury-Townsend ) shot to the top of the table by retaining his title for the second successive season and now has 17 points . |
| 11 | Evans was found guilty and hanged for murder in July 1949 , protesting his innocence to the last . |
| 12 | The Marquis of Blandford has insisted he ca n't be stopped from succeeding his father as the next Duke Of Marlborough . |
| 13 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 14 | Members of the housing committee of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities were told of a complaint by Tweeddale District Council over a request by a tenant , who was exercising his right-to-buy for the first time , that his fiancee be included as a joint purchaser . |
| 15 | Allowing his appeal against the second conviction , the court applied by analogy what their Lordships take to be the principle which underlies the doctrine of autrefois convict . |
| 16 | He missed Aintree 's colour and clamour , the release of easing his mount to the first fence after the parade . |
| 17 | Barney , of course , is currently struggling his way through the next set of fabulous lyrics for the upcoming New Order album which is staggering to completion . |
| 18 | He spent the interval just sitting in his dressing room , gathering his strength for the next act . |
| 19 | He would silence noise by poking his head down the first step and yelling threats of appalling punishment . |
| 20 | Then he shook his feet free of the stirrups and , lifting his horse for the last time , sent it rearing into the enemy mass to crash and sink amongst them . |
| 21 | The TV presenter looked across at the sergeant , as though registering his presence for the first time . |
| 22 | Steve Whitton and Dalian Atkinson were Wednesday 's discoverers of the lost art ; Luton 's hero was their £900,000 Danish acquisition , Lars Elstrup , who scored three following his double in the first leg . |
| 23 | He saw Dad feeling his way down the last flight of stairs , the pyjamas , the slippers , the blue cardigan cut off just above the elbows , feeling his way through some kind of thick barbiturate mist . |
| 24 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |
| 25 | Husband sat back in his chair and began lighting his pipe for the third time . |
| 26 | Richmond said McHale was already planning his side for the next campaign . |