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Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1	Colonel Bumford took his opportunity to win on the last throw .
2	Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year .
3	He also declared his willingness to participate in the second round of the presidential poll and said that UNITA would attend forthcoming multiparty talks convened by the MPLA-PT .
4	Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream .
5	Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream .
6	Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times .
7	His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation .
8	We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public .
9	At 9.15 am , after his sand save on the 18th , he said : ‘ I 'm going for another kip . ’
10	LEEDS United 's record buy David Rocastle last night refused to lose heart over his failure to break into the first team at Elland Road .
11	A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ .
12	He played in six series against England and only in the last , in 1963 , did he fail with the bat ; other big scores included 191 not out , again at Nottingham , carrying his bat to help save the third Test of 1957 , and 197 not out at Barbados in the first match of 1959–60 again to ensure a draw after a big England innings .
13	His confidence stems from the last two victories .
14	A man in a two-piece suit , and a thin cotton shirt and his tie knotted at the second button of the shirt .
15	His head moves for the first time to follow his eyes and maintain the essential link of communication signals .
16	And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time .
17	He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 .
18	This was Mayall 's first Hollywood film and he should n't hold his breath waiting for a second chance .
19	Thus did his byline appear in the first issue .
20	His life depended on the next few minutes .
21	And his voice rose on the last two words .
22	His voice trembled for the first time .
23	So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War .
24	It was already poured , and just as his hand closed on the last glass with pale gold contents , he caught sight of Meryl near the window with Gladys .
25	Surely it must be his duty to call in the next day or so on Paul Berowne 's wife and his family .
26	Will his reputation survive into the twenty-first century ?
27	It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives .
28	But what is particularly interesting in the context of what his house became in the Second World War — and indeed what it is today , a Post Office Engineering Training establishment — was his financial interest in the Anglo-American Telegraph Company .