Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | His unusual choice and his talent brought a second audition , and then the coveted part in the West End . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After Berry returned home to England with his party , Valeri Krishchaty and his team made a second attempt on the North-East ridge from their camp five at around 7,900m. close to the beginning of the pinnacles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His father struck the first chord and Davide began , |
| 9 | His Lordship posited a third situation where looking again at the whole context it could be seen whether the end result was fair despite some initial defect . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Xerxes 's fleet was destroyed in 480 at Salamis under Athenian leadership , and his army defeated the next year at Plataea under the Spartans . |
| 14 | 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 . |