Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprise Offer was running without blinkers and Hannon said : ‘ He 'll definitely wear them for his next race , the Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot . ’ |
| 2 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 3 | Butch hit a decent shot down the first , and then turned round to ask me about his second shot . |
| 4 | He has in fact got a job , now his father mentions it , and an astonishingly good one , too , for someone in his first year down from university . |
| 5 | He got into position ‘ A ’ with everyone of his second shots that day , and that 's the name of the game at Birkdale . |
| 6 | Donne steps forward , his arms relaxing as if to balance himself during his first few faltering steps after centuries of rest in the tomb . |
| 7 | On Sunday 18 April , Dave was preparing himself for his first ever parachute jump to raise money for charity [ and to overcome his own fear of heights and aeroplanes ] when he heard that the jump had been cancelled due to bad weather . |
| 8 | He meticulously prepared himself for his first meeting . |
| 9 | Six years later , in 1980 , he moved south of the Border to take on the role of TMcL 's UK managing partner and promptly landed himself in his first hot seat . |
| 10 | In reasserting his paternal authority , and finding his old political touch , Louis showed himself in his last years a conspicuous success . |
| 11 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 12 | Wilson himself at his first meeting with President Johnson seems to have struck the right note with his claim that his was a forward-looking government with none of the imperial nostalgia of its predecessor . |
| 13 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 14 | God in the middle contending for the world , a man on his left choosing to side with the Evil One till the last , and on the right a thief who with his last gasp offered his broken solidarity back to God for healing and restoration . |
| 15 | Willis 's 5 for 42 clearly inspired Roberts , who in his first four overs sent back Steele , Hayes and Balderstone : Woolmer and Willey took the score to 80 before the former departed , and Willey and Greig then looked as though they might turn the match England 's way . |
| 16 | Of the many people involved , three in particular stand out — Andreas Prindl FCIB , Chairman of the Institute 's Eastern European Working Party ; Alan Dearden FCIB , a Know Fund consultant , who in his first year organised over 1,000 weeks of banking training ; and Jack Storer OBE , Hon FCIB , who was in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 17 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 18 | Desert Orchid faced eleven opponents , of whom those most likely to spoil the party were Bonanza Boy ( twice winner of the Welsh National and representative of the formidable combination of trainer Martin Pipe and jockey Peter Scudamore ) , Toby Tobias ( a highly promising young chaser trained by Jenny Pitman and ridden by her son Mark ) , Nick The Brief ( who on his last appearance had easily won the Vincent O'Brien Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown ) and Cavvies Clown ( trained like Desert Orchid by David Elsworth and second in the Gold Cup in 1988 ) . |
| 19 | The Raasay ferry takes only a handful of vehicles and rather more passengers , and travels frequently , and if the ferryman finds that he has no room for you on his last run of the day from Raasay back to Sconser he will return . |
| 20 | But in Toby 's experience friendship between a boy in his fourth year and one in his second was a rare occurrence , and one which would usually be a particular sort of friendship . |
| 21 | Brynner had left virtually everything to his fourth wife , ‘ the dancing girl ’ as Rock invariably refers to her , and not one personal possession to his son or his four younger daughters . |
| 22 | His change in lifestyle perhaps owed something to his second marriage in 1863 ( his first wife had died in 1860 ) to Mrs Job Lees ( née Sarah Mayall , unrelated ) , from the ranks of the local élite . |
| 23 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 24 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |
| 25 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 26 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 27 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 28 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 29 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 30 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |