Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 2 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 3 | A devastating second run worthy of Ingemar Stenmark in his prime reversed the one-second lead of Ole-Christian Furuseth for victory by half a second with a two-run aggregate of 2 minutes 7.41 seconds . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the best century I have ever played , ’ said Crowe as his side finished the third day on 277-6 -still 15 short of avoiding an innings defeat . |
| 5 | The creditor who had been splashed by his debtor 's wheel could have his carriage seized the next day . |
| 6 | WHEN in March 1989 the American treasury secretary , Nicholas Brady , announced his plan to reduce the third world 's commercial-bank debt , particularly Latin America 's , he was criticised for being too vague . |
| 7 | To show his annoyance , Clive 's reaction was to leave his car in the car park that evening so that , whatever time his boss arrived the next day , he would think he was in . |
| 8 | His main expense is photocopying thousands of legal documents and he spends his days preparing the next part of his case . |
| 9 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eventually he allows his wife to make the first wish ; she wishes for him : ( " That you should be completely covered with penises " ) |
| 13 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 14 | His father struck the first chord and Davide began , |
| 15 | However , his Lordship considered the second submission , that a contract had been created in respect of the provision of and payment for the valuation report , to be well-founded , because the declaration in question consisted of an offer by the society to provide a copy of the report to the pursuers in exchange for payment , which they accepted by signing and returning the form . |
| 16 | His Lordship reviewed the nineteenth century case law which evidenced the broad application of natural justice and then proceeded to consider why , given these authorities , the law had become confused . |
| 17 | Consequently , the last line of his life parroted the last line of his masterpiece : at his funeral a picket of soldiers turned up to fire a volley over the coffin , and thus bid the state 's traditional farewell to one of its most improbable and sardonic chevaliers . |
| 18 | Xerxes 's fleet was destroyed in 480 at Salamis under Athenian leadership , and his army defeated the next year at Plataea under the Spartans . |
| 19 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 20 | His book To Build the Second City , published by Redcliffe Press last October ( price £19.95 ) , has a chapter on Rococo and Gothick design and building in Bristol . |
| 21 | In his report delivered the next day , he observed that the road surface was not yet completed and that only drivers with at least six years ' service could be employed on Anerley Hill . |
| 22 | He had previously pedalled his way to make the first cycle crossings of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco , and of Lapland from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea . |
| 23 | 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 . |