Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation . |
2 | 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 ’ . |
3 | And there the momentum of his pursuit faltered for the first time . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
6 | His voice trembled for the first time . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |