Example sentences of "[pron] on his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 4 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 5 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 6 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 7 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 8 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 9 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 10 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 11 | He became aware of the excessive beating of his heart , and remembered the attendant 's advice not to overdo it on his first visit . |
| 12 | He scored a useful goal for us on his first full appearance to help us to victory at Grimsby the following month . |