Example sentences of "and his [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 2 | Xerxes 's fleet was destroyed in 480 at Salamis under Athenian leadership , and his army defeated the next year at Plataea under the Spartans . |
| 3 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 4 | He and his family say the second operation was unnecessary , and the hospital , the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford , was negligent ; a claim Oxfordshire Health Authority deny . |
| 5 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |