Example sentences of "[adj] by his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this by his 20th birthday ! |
| 2 | A member of the German Wire Company is conducting a line test on one of the telephones , and the Turkish interpreter , a young , olive-skinned Lance-Corporal with only two of his eighteen months ' national service remaining , and known to all by his first name of Ercan because his surname is unpronounceable in English , is standing near the entrance drinking coffee and smoking a foul-smelling cigarette . |
| 3 | John had at least four sons and three daughters , probably all by his first wife . |
| 4 | Even Haig was agreeably impressed by his first encounters with him : ‘ I found him businesslike , knowledgeable , and brief in speech . |
| 5 | But Toby was made obstinate by his first off-the-cuff effort to get himself a job . |
| 6 | He has a daughter of 23 by his first marriage and is happily married to his second wife Jenny . |
| 7 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 8 | When he stepped out , he was astonished by his first view of the place . |