Example sentences of "and his [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 2 | And it is to be noted that the initial mistake was that of the judge who made his ruling and his reference to the second statement without argument and in unfortunate terms . |
| 3 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 4 | His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank . |
| 5 | The Führer , too , had demonstratively donned field-grey at the start of the war , to emphasize his unity with his troops and his image as the first soldier of the Reich , whereas the unpopular Party hacks were often seen as shirkers , avoiding their duty at the Front . |