Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 2 | His denial of robbing the last victim — Mary Cannon — was accepted by the court . |
| 3 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 4 | Holland 's Richard Krajicek lost his chance of reaching the last four when he slipped 6–4 , 6–3 to Ivanisevic . |
| 5 | If that seems to be the Russian price for full German unity , and if Mr Kohl 's instincts tell him it is also his price for winning the next German election , he may be tempted to go for it . |
| 6 | The new Defence Minister , understood to be a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein 's stance on Kuwait , had been Inspector General of the armed forces and previously a deputy Chief of Staff , and had been decorated for his service in commanding the First Army Special Corps during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 7 | But Vernon , 19 , signed for Conference side Bath City the following day and on Saturday relaunched his career by scoring the first round winner against Cardiff City . |
| 8 | Some felt he owed his life to spending the last ten months of the war in Stalag Luft 3 at Sagan near Breslau . |
| 9 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 10 | He was provisionally enrolled at Oriel College , Oxford , and it was not until 21 July 1759 that he was able to celebrate his acceptance by writing the first line of the diary : ‘ Made a Scholar of New-College ’ . |